(EN) Phil Merkey, Beowulf History, su Beowulf Org. URL consultato il 25 novembre 2018 (archiviato dall'url originale il 5 agosto 2004).
«In late 1993, Donald Becker and Thomas Sterling began sketching the outline of a commodity-based cluster system designed as a cost-effective alternative to large supercomputers. In early 1994, working at CESDIS under the sponsorship of the HPCC/ESS project, the Beowulf Project was started.»
