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The developers used freely available and [[open source software]] such as [[Linux]] operating system, the [[Parallel Virtual Machine]] toolkit, and the [[Message Passing Interface]] library.<ref name="extreme">{{Cite news |title= Cluster Computing: Linux Taken to the Extreme |first1= William W. |last1= Hargrove |first2= Forrest M. |last2= Hoffman |work= [[Linux Magazine]] |year= 1999 |url= http://climate.ornl.gov/~forrest/linux-magazine-1999/ |access-date= October 18, 2011 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111018122713/http://climate.ornl.gov/~forrest/linux-magazine-1999/ |archive-date= October 18, 2011 }}</ref> | The developers used freely available and [[open source software]] such as [[Linux]] operating system, the [[Parallel Virtual Machine]] toolkit, and the [[Message Passing Interface]] library.<ref name="extreme">{{Cite news |title= Cluster Computing: Linux Taken to the Extreme |first1= William W. |last1= Hargrove |first2= Forrest M. |last2= Hoffman |work= [[Linux Magazine]] |year= 1999 |url= http://climate.ornl.gov/~forrest/linux-magazine-1999/ |access-date= October 18, 2011 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111018122713/http://climate.ornl.gov/~forrest/linux-magazine-1999/ |archive-date= October 18, 2011 }}</ref> | ||
By early 1997 the first applications were running on the cluster. By May 2001 it had 133 nodes. They included [[Intel 80486]] and [[Pentium]]-based machines as well as a few [[DEC Alpha]] workstations. Low-cost [[Ethernet]] networking was used for interconnection instead of any special-purpose network.<ref name="extreme"/> The cluster was the subject of an article in ''[[Scientific American]]'' magazine in 2001.<ref name="sciam"/> Many applications were developed on this system that could then be deployed on other, faster clusters. The stone cluster was no longer in use by August 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title= The Stone SouperComputer - ORNL's First Beowulf-Style Parallel Computer |work= Project website |date= August 27, 2003 |first= Forrest M. |last= Hoffman |url= http://stonesoup.esd.ornl.gov/ |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20031121211117/http://stonesoup.esd.ornl.gov/ |archive-date= November 21, 2003 |access-date= October 18, 2011 }}</ref> | By early 1997, the first applications were running on the cluster. By May 2001, it had 133 nodes. They included [[Intel 80486]] and [[Pentium]]-based machines as well as a few [[DEC Alpha]] workstations. Low-cost [[Ethernet]] networking was used for interconnection instead of any special-purpose network.<ref name="extreme"/> The cluster was the subject of an article in ''[[Scientific American]]'' magazine in 2001.<ref name="sciam"/> Many applications were developed on this system that could then be deployed on other, faster clusters. The stone cluster was no longer in use by August 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title= The Stone SouperComputer - ORNL's First Beowulf-Style Parallel Computer |work= Project website |date= August 27, 2003 |first= Forrest M. |last= Hoffman |url= http://stonesoup.esd.ornl.gov/ |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20031121211117/http://stonesoup.esd.ornl.gov/ |archive-date= November 21, 2003 |access-date= October 18, 2011 }}</ref> | ||
This approach was used as a model for other educational cluster projects.<ref>{{cite journal |first1= Joel |last1=Adams |first2= David |last2= Vos |title=Small-college supercomputing: Building a Beowulf cluster at a comprehensive college |journal=ACM SIGCSE Bulletin |volume= 34 |number= 1 |date= March 2002 |pages=411–415 |doi= 10.1145/563517.563498 |isbn= 1-58113-473-8 |doi-access= free }}</ref> | This approach was used as a model for other educational cluster projects.<ref>{{cite journal |first1= Joel |last1=Adams |first2= David |last2= Vos |title=Small-college supercomputing: Building a Beowulf cluster at a comprehensive college |journal=ACM SIGCSE Bulletin |volume= 34 |number= 1 |date= March 2002 |pages=411–415 |doi= 10.1145/563517.563498 |isbn= 1-58113-473-8 |doi-access= free }}</ref> | ||
Latest revision as of 19:27, 23 June 2025
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 including William W. Hargrove and Forrest M. Hoffman applied for a grant to build a cluster in 1996, but it was rejected. They decided to build a cluster anyway, using desktop personal computers that had been discarded as being too slow. The name was derived from the story of stone soup.[1] The developers used freely available and open source software such as Linux operating system, the Parallel Virtual Machine toolkit, and the Message Passing Interface library.[2]
By early 1997, the first applications were running on the cluster. By May 2001, it had 133 nodes. They included Intel 80486 and Pentium-based machines as well as a few DEC Alpha workstations. Low-cost Ethernet networking was used for interconnection instead of any special-purpose network.[2] The cluster was the subject of an article in Scientific American magazine in 2001.[1] Many applications were developed on this system that could then be deployed on other, faster clusters. The stone cluster was no longer in use by August 2003.[3] This approach was used as a model for other educational cluster projects.[4]