"Linux and Supercomputing: How My Passion for Building COTS Systems Led" by David A. Bader and Alex Magoun
 

Linux and Supercomputing: How My Passion for Building COTS Systems Led to an HPC Revolution

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-1-2021

Abstract

David A. Bader described how his passion for building collections of commodity off-the shelf (COTS) systems led to an HPC revolution. His system design took a revolutionary new direction that differed significantly from Beowulf and the HPC research community’s cluster efforts. While Beowulf optimized to minimize cost per megaFLOP and required only free software, his system design maximized performance per price per megaFLOP, and used both mass market commodity components and proprietary software and networks. Beowulf used only Ethernet for the system area network, and David A. Bader engineered the first use of a proprietary scalable network, Myrinet, in a Linux system since communication was a HPC bottleneck.

Identifier

85116035975 (Scopus)

Publication Title

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2021.3101415

e-ISSN

19341547

ISSN

10586180

First Page

73

Last Page

80

Issue

3

Volume

43

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