"john czarnuszewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had posted: > http://www.scientificamerican.com/2001/0801issue/0801hargrove.html Thank you for the excellent article URL. Although I have yet to set up a Beowulf cluster, I have been hearing about them in some of the computer forensics seminars and literature. (One use is cracking passwords of locked-out systems. Of course the legality of that depends upon whose system it is and the context of password cracking.) In a way, the building of cheap supercomputers is a blast from the past. About 12 years ago, a PC users I was with had a special meeting at Princeton Univ. where Prof. Dan Nosenchuck of Princeton explained how he clustered PCs (286s, I believe they were) to make a supercomputing cluster to handle complex fluid dynamics modeling. Less costly than Crays. <g> (Prof. Nosenchuck, by the way, is an Emmy award winner. It was for the special effects in the made-for-TV movie "The Day After." Fluid dynamic models in a tank were used for doing the post-nuke blast smoke effects in the movie. That was pre-Linux. Now, Linux is moving into move computer graphics work. The production of Shrek was done extensively on Linux systems.) J.D. Abolins (P.S.: I hope to come to the next HamLUG meeting for a visit.)
