On Monday, 23.04.2007 at 22:14 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: > I'm surprised about the kernal level - I'd have thought with all the > tooing and froing about running virtual machines and so on just lately > that the projects would be clamboring to get the virtualisation stuff > into the main line 2.6.2x kernal. > > Or, have I led myself up the garden path of total mis understanding > out onto the back lane of total ignorance by getting virtualisation > and cluster / parallel computing mixed up?
I think you're mixed up. Clustering: typically running many physically-separate systems as a single logical processing machine Virtualisation: typically, running many virtual operating systems on a single physical machine Parallel: typically running a single 'program/job/application' simultaneously on multiple CPUs Virtualisation works very well under 2.6.x See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_cluster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_computing and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machines Examples of each: Clustering: OpenMOSIX, MOSIX Virtualisation: VMware, Xen Parallel: any multi-threaded application Dave. -- Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - freenode: davee All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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