Virtualizing a Supercomputer 57
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from the slicing-up-the-pie dept.
from the slicing-up-the-pie dept.
bridges writes "The V3VEE project has announced the release of version 1.2 of the Palacios virtual machine monitor following the successful testing of Palacios on 4096 nodes of the Sandia Red Storm supercomputer, the 17th-fastest in the world. The added overhead of virtualization is often a show-stopper, but the researchers observed less than 5% overhead for two real, communication-intensive applications running in a virtual machine on Red Storm. Palacios 1.2 supports virtualization of both desktop x86 hardware and Cray XT supercomputers using either AMD SVM or Intel VT hardware virtualization extensions, and is an active open source OS research platform supporting projects at multiple institutions. Palacios is being jointly developed by researchers at Northwestern University, the University of New Mexico, and Sandia National Labs." The ACM's writeup has more details of the work at Sandia.
Oblig. (Score:0, Funny)
Imagine a beowulf cluster of beowulf clusters of those! Pwoar.
Cool. (Score:5, Funny)
Now we'll never need to build another expensive supercomputer. We'll just "virtualize" them on cheap desktops.
Oh. Wait...
Other way (Score:5, Funny)
This is virtualization... Imagine someone Imagining a beowulf cluster of those!
-Matt