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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Victor Vasilchenko <vvasilchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU redesigned for MPI (Message Passing Interface)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:55:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B019203.7030308@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <747a56b80911130629q4046b4fbg400f7566997aa931@mail.gmail.com>

Victor Vasilchenko wrote:
> Good day,
>
> I've got an idea in my head and can't get rid of it - neither can I 
> find any solution on web.
>
> The idea is to use the Virtualization Software with the purpose 
> OPPOSITE to it's natural way.
>
> The practical example below will explain it completely:
>
> 1) we take 4 common modern computers - CoreQuad + 8 GB Memory.
> 2) we assemble a standard Linux cluster with 16 cores and 32G memory.
> 3) and now - we run the only one virtual guest system, but give it ALL 
> available resources.

What you're describing is commonly referred to as a Single System 
Image.  It's been around for a while and can be found in software-only 
verses (pre-Xen VirtualIron, ScaleMP) and hardware-assisted (IBM, 3leaf).

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-16 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-13 14:29 [Qemu-devel] QEMU redesigned for MPI (Message Passing Interface) Victor Vasilchenko
2009-11-16  9:01 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2009-11-16 22:57   ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-16 17:55 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-11-17 12:20   ` Paul Brook
2009-11-17 13:40     ` Avi Kivity

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