Of hot tubs and Beowulf: e-learning for seniors

The first Beowulf Linux commodity cluster was constructed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in 1994 and its origins are a part of the folklore of high-end computing. In fact, the conditions within Goddard that brought the idea into being were shaped ...

Forced-air heating and cooling systems frequently perform poorly in multi-story homes. Long, leaky ducts running from the heater or air conditioner to the rooms of the house can impede airflow to second story rooms, creating dramatic temperature ...

In the early ’90s, the Berkeley NOW Project under David Culler posited that groups of less capable machines could be used to solve scientific and other computing problems at a fraction of the cost of larger computers. In 1994, Donald Becker and Thomas ...