The Stone Soupercomputer was a Beowulfcomputer cluster built at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1997. The lab 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 as ORNL has bought more modern clusters.
External Links
Stone Soupercomputer website (http://stonesoup.esd.ornl.gov/)
The StoneSouperComputer uses the GNU C (gcc), C++, and FORTRAN (g77) compilers, as well as a commercial Pro Fortran compiler provided by Absoft Corporation (http://www.absoft.com).
Codes developed on the StoneSouperComputer are directly portable to even the largest and most expensive parallel computers because C and MPI are available on all such systems.
The StoneSouperComputer has proven to be a fast, cheap, and robust scalable parallel machine which is dedicated to our ecological applications and controlled by our own priorities.
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