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Title: Useless in 1999, a total waste of money in 2005
Review: As most other readers have elaborated, the book has little or no real substantive material concerning the actual building of a beowulf. Everyone knows Myrinet is better than gigabit ethernet, bu HOW MUCH better for a given class of problems? For any problem???The book does not even consider addressing real issues and configuration choices, but babbles with obvious choices like ssh vs rsh etc, for pages and pages. I feel I was ripped off. These guys seem to be just resting on their laurels and apparently it doesn't seem to bother them that they are giving the intended audience of the book no real value whatsoever. I believe they should either research the matter thoroughly and completely rewrite the book, or just withdraw it from circulation. One can get orders of magnitude more relevant and reliable information just by reading HOWTOs and Googling around.I just wish I had read the other reviews BEFORE buying the book.
