Tag: CLUSTER

Using a handy algorithm that splits a calculation into thousands of little intermediary processes, a researcher at Yahoo has used a cluster of 1,000 computers to calculate the 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of pi. Not all two quadrillion digits -- just that one digit (which is a binary 0, if you're wondering). The calculation was made possible by Hadoop, an open source implementation of Google's ...

This comes to you out of the "alright, that's a little odd (but also cool)" category of computer news. Those infamous MAKERs at Maker Faire have done it once again. Using nothing but old computers, they managed to jerry-rig together a 31-node "super *cough* computer." Not special you say? Not Download Squad material you say? Well, I think we would all agree that saving our environment is important ...