Microwulf: A beowulf cluster for every desk

SIGCSE'08 - Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 121-125

  Adams, Joel C ^a   Brom, Timothy H ^b  

^a CALVIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beowulf; Cluster; Computational efficiency; Cost efficiency; Parallel; Portable; Power efficiency; Price; Space efficiency

Indexed keywords

BEOWULF; CLUSTER; COST EFFICIENCY; PARALLEL; PORTABLE; POWER EFFICIENCY; PRICE; SPACE EFFICIENCY;

COMPUTERS;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 57449121807     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1352135.1352178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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