A Beowulf cluster is a computer cluster of normally identical, commodity-grade computers networked into a small local area network with libraries and programs...
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Beowulf (/ˈbeɪəwʊlf/ ; Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowuɫf]) is an Old English poem, an epic in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182...
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Beowulf is a 2007 American animated fantasy action film produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, based on the...
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approach to building a cluster is that of a Beowulf cluster which may be built with a few personal computers to produce a cost-effective alternative to...
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as The Polar Express, Beowulf, and A Christmas Carol have been criticized as "disconcerting" and "creepy". The goal of computer animation is not always...
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Supercomputer (redirect from Super computer)
A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is...
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Beowulf & Grendel, a 2005 film Grendel, the Holy City in the Scrapped Princess anime In computing: Grendel, a species in the artificial life computer...
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The Stone Soupercomputer was a Beowulf-style computer cluster built at the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the late 1990s. A group of lab employees...
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Parallel computing (redirect from Parallel computer)
(2000), p. 1. What is clustering? Webopedia computer dictionary. Retrieved on November 7, 2007. Beowulf definition. Archived 2012-10-10 at the Wayback...
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A computer-assisted proof is a mathematical proof that has been at least partially generated by computer. Most computer-aided proofs to date have been...
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American computer programmer who wrote Ethernet drivers for the Linux operating system. Becker, in collaboration with Thomas Sterling, created the Beowulf clustering...
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project to build supercomputers out of commodity clusters. In 1995 the Beowulf cluster—a cluster built on top of a commodity network for the specific...
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help of computers, the technique to render realistic 3D computer graphics (CG) or 3D computer-generated imagery (CGI), is unique to computer animation...
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Floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations that...
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small amount of extra thinking time In his Modern English translation of Beowulf, Irish poet Seamus Heaney uses "So" to translate the single-word opening...
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(2004) and A Christmas Carol (2009) as well as the action fantasy drama Beowulf (2007), and the drama Welcome to Marwen (2018). He has collaborated with...
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List of Known Space characters (redirect from Beowulf Shaeffer)
and novels. Emil Horne, a native of Jinx, is a top-flight computer programmer. He meets Beowulf Shaeffer on a trip from Down to Gummidgy and they struck...
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package implements a simple mechanism for using a set of workstations or a Beowulf cluster for embarrassingly parallel computations. Similar R packages include...
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Kevin Kiernan (scholar) (section Electronic Beowulf)
literature. Kiernan is the editor of the Electronic Beowulf and an acknowledged expert on the Beowulf manuscript. Kiernan is the T. Marshall Hahn Sr. Professor...
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English literature, especially from Beowulf, shape the ancient world which Bilbo stepped into. Tolkien, a scholar of Beowulf, counted the epic among his "most...
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Flight Center (GSFC) and discussed their plans to build the first Beowulf computer. It was agreed that PVFS would be ported to Linux and be featured on...
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This is a list of computer scientists, people who do work in computer science, in particular researchers and authors. Some persons notable as programmers...
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Performance per watt (redirect from Computer energy efficiency)
not certain. Microwulf, a low cost desktop Beowulf cluster of four dual-core Athlon 64 X2 3800+ computers, runs at 58 MFLOPS/watt. Kalray has developed...
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Commodity computing (redirect from Commodity computer)
Times Twitter Yahoo! Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) PlayStation 3 cluster Beowulf cluster John E. Dorband; Josephine Palencia Raytheon; Udaya Ranawake. "Commodity...
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Animation (redirect from 3D computer animation)
special suits that allow computers to copy their movements into CG characters. Examples include Polar Express (2004, US), Beowulf (2007, US), A Christmas...
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between the breaking of the barrow-wight's spell and the final battle in Beowulf, where the dragon's barrow is entered and the treasure released from its...
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Uncanny valley (category Computer graphics)
feeling of deadness in their faces. In a review of the 2007 animated movie Beowulf, New York Times technology writer David Gallagher wrote that the movie...
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Sutton Hoo (section Connections with Beowulf)
Roman Empire. The ship burial has prompted comparisons with the world of Beowulf. The Old English poem is partly set in Götaland in southern Sweden, which...
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Outlander (film) (category Films based on Beowulf)
and Ron Perlman. The plot is loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf, adapted to a science fiction backstory involving a spaceship crashing...
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History of computing (redirect from The History of Computers)
world. Though Linux-based clusters using consumer-grade parts, such as Beowulf, existed before the development of Bader's prototype and RoadRunner, they...
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