Stone Soupercomputer

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The Stone Soupercomputer was a Beowulf computer cluster built at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1997. A group of lab employees had applied for a grant to build a cluster, but it was rejected. They decided to build a cluster anyway, using desktop computers that had been discarded as being too slow. The name is derived from the story of Stone soup.

The cluster became famous and was the subject of an article in Scientific American in 2001. Many applications were developed on this system that could then be deployed on other, faster clusters. The Beowulf cluster is no longer in use.