Low cost, highly effective parallel computing achieved through a Beowulf cluster
Bitner, M.; Skelton, G.
Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation 39: 42-47
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0067-8856 PMID: 12724866 Document Number: 559535
A Beowulf cluster is a means of bringing together several computers and using software and network components to make this cluster of computers appear and function as one computer with multiple parallel computing processors. A cluster of computers can provide comparable computing power usually found only in very expensive super computers or servers.
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