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dredmorbius · 2023-01-25 · Original thread
That's more a COW, than a (Beo)wulf, no?

<https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/high-performance-linux/...>

A cluster of workstations (COW) is usually opportunistic exploiting existing systems, and lower density than a dedicated (usually rack-based or datacentre-based) cluster.

In practice, COWs usually turn out to be not especially useful, though there are exceptions.