[techtalk] Progeny Debian

[Michelle Murrain]

At 3:40 PM -0500 6/1/01, Jeff Dike wrote:
>michelle at murrain.net said:
>>  I've heard tell about user-mode Linux - it sounds pretty interesting.
>
>Yup, check it out :-)
>
>>  Another possibility is VMWare. But neither  will let you run a Beowulf
>>  cluster. :-)
>
>Sure they will.  Both will let you set up a virtual network which forms a
>Beowulf cluster.  Obviously it will have less computing power available to it
>than the host machine (which may be what you meant :-), but it's still a
>Beowulf cluster...

Well, yeah, OK, but the *point* of a beowulf cluster is to get more 
processing power. Sure, I could put a virtual one together, and I 
guess it would be useful for learning how to put a virtual beowulf 
cluster together, and I guess it would be a useful thing to do that 
before one actually goes out and buys all that equipment and upgrades 
one's home electrical system in the process.

BTW, VMWare will allow you to run any OS that runs on standard PC 
hardware. I got the impression that user-mode linux only allows you 
to run other virtual linux OSes - can you also run BSD? (Or, gasp, 
windows for that matter?)

Michelle
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