Beowulf cluster

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A Beowulf cluster is a computer cluster of normally identical, commodity-grade computers networked into a small local area network with libraries and programs installed that allow processing to be shared among them. The result is a high-performance parallel computing cluster from inexpensive personal computer hardware.

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