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From: | Avi Kivity |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU redesigned for MPI (Message Passing Interface) |
Date: | Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:40:13 +0200 |
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On 11/17/2009 02:20 PM, Paul Brook wrote:
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).Or better still do it at the OS level (e.g. OpenSSI).
This is at best incredibly difficult since you have to cluster a huge program (Linux). If the OS is closed it's impossible even to start.
If you do this at the virtualization level all you need is distributed shared memory for guest RAM and clustering at the qemu level. If each node gets its own PCI bus it shouldn't be too difficult.
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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