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No reason you can’t, especially if you’re not interested in benchmark runs (there’s a chance that if you ran a lot of heavily-loaded VMs, there could be CPU contention on the host).
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<div>Any cluster development work I’ve done lately has used VMware VMs exclusively.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Feb 9, 2020, at 7:10 PM, Mark Kosmowski <mark.kosmowski@solidstatecomputation.com> wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">I purchased a Cisco UCS C460 M2 (4 @ 10 core Xeons, 128 GB total RAM) for $115 in my local area. If I used ESXi (free license), I am limited to 8 vcpu per VM. Could I make a virtual Beowulf cluster out of some of these VMs? I'm thinking this
way I can learn cluster admin without paying the power bill for my ancient Opteron boxes and also scratch my illumos itch while computing on Linux.</p>
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