* "Early February, 1999: Members of the L/UUG at VT officially begin planning a [[VTLUUG:Beowulf Cluster|Beowulf Cluster]] project.]"* "March 2, 1999: Project team met to assemble assorted donated and purchased parts into 7 (one more still under construction) functional computers that will become the 8 nodes in our cluster. Note: Clemmit, in a fit of over-productivity, assembled two of these 7 the night before by himself. What a poser. :)"* "Late March, 1999: The hardware was set up in space provided graciously by the Atomistic Simulation Lab of the Materials Engineering Department at Virginia Tech during the week of Spring Break (how nerdy is that?)."* "April 16, 1999: Seven nodes are up and running."* "May 10, 1999: Lots of people gone for the summer. We're gearing up for setting up software and starting some real capability testing - probably not until Fall when people get back though."