Also called
Beowulf computing or
Beowulf cluster computing, it is a High
Performance Computing Cluster (
HPCC) that consists of
clustering computer systems on a high speed
network running
open
source operating systems, like
Linux or
FreeBSD and also
using Beowulf software to function as a single massive
parallel computer. Beowulf clusters are
most commonly used for computational intensive tasks including digital media
rendering, seismic analysis, or computational chemistry.