I'd throw away the VMWare and build a small ClusterMatic cluster, and then
proceed to run small (<2 million agents) MPI/C++ simulations.
VMWare is cool, but not for HPC.
--Doug
On 1/5/06, J T Johnson <tom at jtjohnson.com> wrote:
>
> FYI, gang.
>
> "Virtualization Testbed"
> Suppose you had a couple of quad processor boxes with 16Gb of RAM each
> attached to a 1Tb SAN and enough VMWare ESX licenses to do whatever you
> wanted on the platform. What would you do? We're wrapping up some initial
> VMWare performance studies on the boxes and I'm looking for ideas about what
> research projects to do with them next. I have a few ideas, but I'm curious
> if you have any.
>
>
http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/01/virtualization_1.shtml>
> --tj
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http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com
>
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