[Quantian-general] Running Openmosix on a 2.6 kernel

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 18 January 2007 at 18:36, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
| Reliability considerations aside, isn't the whole point of Quantian and 
| clustering *high-performance* computing? A virtual machine in VMware 
| Player, VMware Workstation or VMware Server is a *parasite* -- it 
| operates as an *application* inside the host operating system. There's 
| substantial overhead associated with that, including the fact that only 
| some of the installed RAM can be given to the guest VM.

Not having to reboot makes the development and testing cycle more productive.
Human time is more generally more valuable than cpu time. Also, a virtual
'guest' may re-use cpu cycles otherwise lost to a machine being mostly idle.

Dirk

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