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On the cover: Caltech's Thomas Sterling reflects on the growing popularity of Beowulf, a computing concept that links personal computers across Ethernet networks. Using such commodity equipment yields high performance at low cost. Photograph by Judy Conlon


Goddard Space Flight Center's John Dorband describes theHIVE, a 128-processor Beowulf computer being used for Earth and space science applications. Photograph by Debora McCallum

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

High-Performance Computing and Communications Program

Ames Research Center
M/S 269-3
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000

Issue 7, November 1998

INSIGHTS is published by the HPCC Program office. For more information, visit the HPCC home page.

Editor, writer, photographer, designer: Judy Conlon
Copyediting: Berylene Rogers
Web Page design: Colleen Kaiser

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Special thanks to the following contributors: Richard Anderson, David Appel, Charles Chamberlin, Christine Cortez, Lisa Coyle, James Donald, Pat Elson, Myrla Francisco, Terry Hardstad, Gerry Hoshijo, Jeanette Johnston, Ellen Mata, Sarabeth Murphy, Eugene Miya, Todd Novak, Carina Roque, and Aretha Waller.