<div dir="ltr">Thank you Brian</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM Brian E Carpenter <<a href="mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com">brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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The concept of Unix clusters predated Linux; I think Linux on commodity kit is indeed about 30 years old.<br>
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The first Unix-ish cluster I'm personally aware of was proposed at CERN in 1990, e.g. <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://inspirehep.net/literature/327239__;!!DLa72PTfQgg!PcdtuEN3M9U0dzV75pcPU4VJtGyQQR9P28ifzhoXgRjt280cQjKTb79dVb0yt2ziW7U3gx4AZIE4HT9shiMWbB_y$" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://inspirehep.net/literature/327239__;!!DLa72PTfQgg!PcdtuEN3M9U0dzV75pcPU4VJtGyQQR9P28ifzhoXgRjt280cQjKTb79dVb0yt2ziW7U3gx4AZIE4HT9shiMWbB_y$</a> . Changing to commodity Linux came a few years later<br>
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Regards<br>
     Brian Carpenter<br>
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On 29-Apr-25 07:34, Koblentz, Evan via Members wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
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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?<br>
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