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# Wiglaf
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/wiglaf/
- Published: 2004-08-06T07:23:21.000Z
- Updated: 2004-08-06T07:23:21.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Systems

Beowulf celebrates 10 years of computing activity.

> In late 1993, Becker and Thomas Sterling, both working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, began thinking about the possibilities of cluster computing. In the summer of 1994, Wiglaf — the first Beowulf cluster, sporting 16 66-Mhz 486 DX4 processors connected by channel-bonded ethernet — was born. It cost about $40,000 to build. \[[Wired News: Open Supercomputing Hits Big 1-0](https://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64481,00.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]