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"Scaling up to ... 512 CPU's is pretty damn studly," said Torvalds said in an e-mail interview. "Putting twenty of them in a cluster and making them be programmable as a single machine is pretty hot."


Torvalds then snort-laughed and shyly looked away.
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Hey, actually Beowulf clusters wouldn't work for any sort of real time gaming =\

Simple fact of life there unfortunately =(

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Hey, actually Beowulf clusters wouldn't work for any sort of real time gaming =\


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Isn't that the dude who invented Linux?
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Post by Athrok »

Linux creator Linus Torvalds applauded the team's success at using Linux in such large nodes. The operating system typically is used in much smaller nodes of 2 to 8 processors.


I didn't get a chance to read yet, but ctrl+f returned this. So he's involved.

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