[SIGCIS-Members] History of Linux hpc/supercomputing

[Brian E Carpenter]

The concept of Unix clusters predated Linux; I think Linux on commodity kit is indeed about 30 years old.

The first Unix-ish cluster I'm personally aware of was proposed at CERN in 1990, e.g. https://inspirehep.net/literature/327239. Changing to commodity Linux came a few years later

Regards
     Brian Carpenter

On 29-Apr-25 07:34, Koblentz, Evan via Members wrote:
> Hi all,
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> It's been about 30 years since supercomputer designers started using Linux and off-the-shelf hardware. Does anyone study the history of that field?
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