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The Stone Soupercomputer was a Beowulf-style computer cluster built at the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the late 1990s. A group of lab employees including William W. Hargrove and Forrest M. Hoffman applied for a grant to build a cluster in 1996, but it was rejected. Software was patterned after the Beowulf project pioneered by NASA. They decided to build a cluster anyway, using desktop personal computers that had been discarded as being too slow. The name was derived from the story of stone soup.The developers used freely available and open source software such as Linux operating system, the Parallel Virtual Machine toolkit, and the Message Passing Interface library.

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  • The Stone Soupercomputer was a Beowulf-style computer cluster built at the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the late 1990s. A group of lab employees including William W. Hargrove and Forrest M. Hoffman applied for a grant to build a cluster in 1996, but it was rejected. Software was patterned after the Beowulf project pioneered by NASA. They decided to build a cluster anyway, using desktop personal computers that had been discarded as being too slow. The name was derived from the story of stone soup.The developers used freely available and open source software such as Linux operating system, the Parallel Virtual Machine toolkit, and the Message Passing Interface library. By early 1997 the first applications were running on the cluster. By May 2001 it had 133 nodes. They included Intel 80486 and Pentium-based machines as well as a few DEC Alpha workstations. Low-cost Ethernet networking was used for interconnection instead of any special-purpose network. The cluster was the subject of an article in Scientific American magazine in 2001. Many applications were developed on this system that could then be deployed on other, faster clusters. The stone cluster was no longer in use by August 2003.This approach was used as a model for other educational cluster projects. (en)
  • Lo Stone Soupercomputer è un cluster Beowulf costruito nel laboratorio Statunitense Oak Ridge National Laboratory nel 1997. Il laboratorio inizialmente aveva fatto richiesta di fondi per la costruzione di un grande cluster ma dopo il rifiuto dei fondi decise di costruire comunque un cluster di computer riciclando i personal computer dismessi perché giudicati troppo lenti per i normali compiti. Il nome deriva da un racconto dove un viandante riuscì a realizzare una zuppa utilizzando una pietra (stone in inglese) e la collaborazione di alcuni abitanti di un villaggio. Il racconto esalta l'ingegnosità e la collaborazione. Il cluster divenne famoso per via di un articolo pubblicato su Scientific American nel 2001. Molte applicazioni vennero sviluppate per questo cluster e lo stesso cluster fu utilizzato come esempio per realizzare sistemi più veloci. Il cluster non è più operativo da molto tempo dato che è stato sostituito da cluster più veloci. (it)
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  • The Stone Soupercomputer was a Beowulf-style computer cluster built at the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the late 1990s. A group of lab employees including William W. Hargrove and Forrest M. Hoffman applied for a grant to build a cluster in 1996, but it was rejected. Software was patterned after the Beowulf project pioneered by NASA. They decided to build a cluster anyway, using desktop personal computers that had been discarded as being too slow. The name was derived from the story of stone soup.The developers used freely available and open source software such as Linux operating system, the Parallel Virtual Machine toolkit, and the Message Passing Interface library. (en)
  • Lo Stone Soupercomputer è un cluster Beowulf costruito nel laboratorio Statunitense Oak Ridge National Laboratory nel 1997. Il laboratorio inizialmente aveva fatto richiesta di fondi per la costruzione di un grande cluster ma dopo il rifiuto dei fondi decise di costruire comunque un cluster di computer riciclando i personal computer dismessi perché giudicati troppo lenti per i normali compiti. Il nome deriva da un racconto dove un viandante riuscì a realizzare una zuppa utilizzando una pietra (stone in inglese) e la collaborazione di alcuni abitanti di un villaggio. Il racconto esalta l'ingegnosità e la collaborazione. (it)
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