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The local Linux/UNIX Users Group here in Blacksburg, Virginia has set out to set up just such a cluster initially using donated and scavenged PC parts. The resulting cluster may be put to use calculating PI, altering time, speeding up the harvest, or doing complex calculations for departments of the university that are interested in becoming involved with the project.
In February 2013, the idea for a [[Raspberry Pi cluster]] arose as a reincarnation of the beowulf cluster. In March 2013, Beowulf v2 planning beganusing donated Pentium 4 boxes.
== Sunway Cluster (Beowulf v2) Specs ==
* <strike>20x</strike> 19x 1U servers (we were told there were 20, but could only find 19...)
** Pentium 4, 2.80 GHz
** 512 MB RAM
;March 30, 2013
: Beowulf v2 is constructed in the CVL; nodes are named after elevator manufacturers. The cluster is named Sunway after an elevator in the hacker movie ''Cypher''. ;April 2, 2013, <nowiki>1:12 AM</nowiki>: VTLUUG uses Sunway for [https://xkcd.com/1193/ xkcd's university hash-cracking challenge]. ;April 2, 2013 <nowiki>1:28 AM</nowiki>: VTLUUG discovers that a single 20A circuit is not sufficient for our cluster when running if full throttle.
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