[Beowulf] scheduler policy design

Joe Landman landman at scalableinformatics.com
Tue Apr 24 10:22:05 PDT 2007


Joe Landman wrote:

[...]

> Current virtualization requires running in a VMware or similar type 
> window.  This is heavyweight and slow, and it impedes access to fast low 
> latency resources.

I stand corrected, VMWare can be fast.  From data provided offline, 
cannot share.  Still wondering about the performance cost to use IB and 
other fast networks.  Maybe some experimentation is in order ...



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