Thursday January 15, 2009 Virtualization Meets HPC at Oak Ridge
As reported at InsideHPC, Sun's Josh Simons has posted an interesting report on the state of Virtualization for HPC:
"Resiliency isn't something the HPC community has traditionally cared much about. Nodes were thin and cheap. If a node crashed, restart the job, replace the node, use checkpoint-restart if you can. Move on; life on the edge is hard. But the world is changing. Nodes are getting fatter again--more cores, more memory, more IO. Big SMPs in tiny packages with totally different economics from traditional large SMPs. Suddenly there is enough persistent state on a node that people start to care how long their nodes stay up. Capabilities like Fault Management start to look really interesting, especially if you are a commercial HPC customer using HPC in production." Full Story
Posted by Rich Brueckner [root] ( January 15, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
