In the Special Cluster Issue of Computing in Science and Engineering:

• "Plug-and-Play" Cluster Computing
  High-Performance Computing for the Mainstream

  	"a must-read for anyone who wants to apply clustering ... but faces limited resources for actually managing the cluster."   - Prof. George K. Thiruvathukal from the Guest Editor's Introduction
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  This article was published in the special Cluster Computing issue (Mar/Apr 2005) of Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE), a joint publication of American Institute of Physics (AIP) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Dean Dauger and Viktor Decyk describe the technology design of Mac clusters, addressing why it was necessary to "reinvent" the cluster computer and how it is meant to benefit users of parallel computing.