High Performance Linux Clusters with OSCAR, Rocks, OpenMosix, and MPI
ISBN: 9780596005702
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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.