Thank you Brian On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM Brian E Carpenter < brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://inspirehep.net/literature/327239__;!!DLa... . Changing to commodity Linux came a few years later
Regards Brian Carpenter
Hi all,
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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