High Performance Linux Clusters: With OSCAR, Rocks, openMosix, and MPI - Paperbackby Joseph Sloan (Author) To the outside world, a "supercomputer" appears to be a single system. In fact, it's a cluster of computers that share a local area network and have the ability to work together on a single problem as a team. Many businesses used to consider supercomputing beyond the reach of their budgets, but new Linux applications have made high performance clusters more affordable than ever. These days, the promise of low cost