8.1 History

		Index

		A

		address

		host, 106

		IP, 106

		netmask, 106

		network, 106

		subnet, 107

		Amdahl's law, 146, 191

		B

		Beowulf mythology

		Grendel, 1

		Heorot, 1

		Hrothgar, 3

		Hyglac, 3

		Naegling, 50, 101

		Wiglaf, 3

		Beowulf node, 29, 49, 52

		internal, 125

		worldly, 28, 87, 125

		C

		cellular automata, 180

		communication libraries

		CMMD, 163

		EUI, 163

		LAM, 172

		MPI, 163

		MPICH, 172

		NX, 163

		PVM, 163

		Vertex, 163

		compilers, see languages

		configuration files

		bootptab, 130

		exports, 75

		fstab, 74

		group, 74, 135

		host.conf, 75

		hosts, 75

		hosts.allow, 75, 141

		hosts.deny, 75, 141

		inetd.conf, 74, 130

		inittab, 74

		lilo.conf, 76

		linuxconf, 74

		passwd, 74, 135

		rc.sysinit, 75

		rc/, 75

		sysconfig/network, 139

		sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*, 129

		X11/XF86Config, 76

		D

		database, 223

		development tools

		cvs, 81

		emacs, 76

		gdb, 79

		gprof, 80

		make, 78

		rcs, 81

		sccs, 81

		strace, 80

		distributed objects

		CORBA, 116

		DCOM, 116

		RMI, 117

		E

		efficiency, see overhead

		Ethernet

		Fast, 93

		Gigabit, 101

		MAC, 98

		NIC, 97

		switches, 99

		F

		file systems

		/proc, 83

		AFS, 119

		autofs, 120

		ext, 70

		ext2, 70

		iso9660, 70

		linux, 70

		minix, 70

		msdos, 70

		NFS, 72, 118

		vfat, 70

		vfs, 70

		firewall, 124, 125, 140

		IP masquerading, 125, 139

		G

		genetic programming, 224

		Gordon Bell Prize, 2

		grain size, 149

		L

		languages, 77

		Ada, 77

		ANTLR, 80

		AWK, 79

		Basic, 77

		Bison, 80

		Byacc, 80

		C, 77

		C++, 77

		expect, 79

		Flex, 80

		Fortran, 77

		Java, 77, 116

		Lex, 80

		Lisp, 77