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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>How does it defeat the purpose when you are using vms on the same host though?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Andrew Holway [mailto:andrew.holway@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 20, 2013 7:45 PM<br><b>To:</b> Jonathan Aquilina<br><b>Cc:</b> Reuti; beowulf@beowulf.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Beowulf] Clustering VPS servers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>AFAIK it is not possible do do with virtual machines and it would kinda defeat the object of virtualisation which is more for splitting up a physical machine into many smaller machines.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The only system I really know anything about is ScaleMP. For this you require an infiniband network between all the hosts and a specialised bios and/or infiniband firmware to make it work.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>ta<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Andrew<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 20 March 2013 19:33, Jonathan Aquilina <<a href="mailto:eagles051387@gmail.com" target="_blank">eagles051387@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Yes that’s what I am curious about.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Andrew Holway [mailto:<a href="mailto:andrew.holway@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.holway@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 20, 2013 7:28 PM<br><b>To:</b> Jonathan Aquilina<br><b>Cc:</b> Reuti; <a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org" target="_blank">beowulf@beowulf.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Beowulf] Clustering VPS servers<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Do you mean a single system image?<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_system_image" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_system_image</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On 20 March 2013 19:16, Jonathan Aquilina <<a href="mailto:eagles051387@gmail.com" target="_blank">eagles051387@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Combining each servers resources into one massive server.<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Reuti [mailto:<a href="mailto:reuti@staff.uni-marburg.de" target="_blank">reuti@staff.uni-marburg.de</a>]<br>Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 7:14 PM<br>To: Jonathan Aquilina<br>Cc: <a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org" target="_blank">beowulf@beowulf.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Clustering VPS servers<br><br>Am 20.03.2013 um 18:26 schrieb Jonathan Aquilina:<br><br>> Hey Guys<br>><br>> I am wondering is it possible to cluster some VPS servers together. I<br>asked some users that use my the provider that I am with which is <a href="http://linode.com" target="_blank">linode.com</a><br>what would be the best way to start clustering these vps's together?<br><br>To combine them for what: HA, HPC or storage?<br><br>-- Reuti<br><br><br>><br>> Regards<br>> Jonathan<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Beowulf mailing list, <a href="mailto:Beowulf@beowulf.org" target="_blank">Beowulf@beowulf.org</a> sponsored by Penguin<br>> Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe)<br>> visit <a href="http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf" target="_blank">http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Beowulf mailing list, <a href="mailto:Beowulf@beowulf.org" target="_blank">Beowulf@beowulf.org</a> sponsored by Penguin Computing<br>To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit <a href="http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf" target="_blank">http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>