A Network of Workstations (NOW) is a computer network that connects several computer workstations together with special software forming a cluster. A Cluster of Workstations (COW) is sometimes used as an alternate terms.

In 1997 researchers at Berkeley achieved 10 gigaflops on the LINPACK benchmark, making NOW, its new distributed supercomputer, one of the 200 fastest machines in the world at that time. This is considered as the birth of the network of workstations concept.

See also

• Distributed computing

External link

• Berkeley NOW Project

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