backwards VM / beowolf / clustering
Posted: 16. Jul 2012, 16:54
reverse clustering
i know that the point of virtualbox is to be able to run multiple OS instances on one piece of hardware, but i am wondering if it will help me to virtualize multiple commodity desktop hardware to many cores without buying a xeon with dual chip supporting motherboard.
i know that there are several linux distributions oriented to having multiple computers running together like a beowulf cluster.
from my research online, it seems that hyperV win2k8 r2 has support to do clustering for blades. i am wondering if virtualbox, or perhaps any of the virtual machine programs (hypervisors) have the ability to do this easily for a win7 or win2k8
i found this post, but there wasnt any response that answer the question
see topic 49891 (sorry, my first post and it requires me to wait 1 day and 1 post to post a URL)
application: i have a software program at work that will use as many cpu cores that i can throw at it for rendering, i am been tasked with finding the most cost effective way to increase our rendering speed/capacity. obviously, spending $5000+ for a dual-chip 8 core (32 cores total) xeon machine would be a substantial investment compared to several $1000 (or less) i7's clustered together. unfortunately, the program doesnt have a distributed model for rendering like 3dmax or any of the dedicated rendering software solutions, where you can distribute the render to several machines. as the program that we use it customized an we do not want to change our process.
i know that the point of virtualbox is to be able to run multiple OS instances on one piece of hardware, but i am wondering if it will help me to virtualize multiple commodity desktop hardware to many cores without buying a xeon with dual chip supporting motherboard.
i know that there are several linux distributions oriented to having multiple computers running together like a beowulf cluster.
from my research online, it seems that hyperV win2k8 r2 has support to do clustering for blades. i am wondering if virtualbox, or perhaps any of the virtual machine programs (hypervisors) have the ability to do this easily for a win7 or win2k8
i found this post, but there wasnt any response that answer the question
see topic 49891 (sorry, my first post and it requires me to wait 1 day and 1 post to post a URL)
application: i have a software program at work that will use as many cpu cores that i can throw at it for rendering, i am been tasked with finding the most cost effective way to increase our rendering speed/capacity. obviously, spending $5000+ for a dual-chip 8 core (32 cores total) xeon machine would be a substantial investment compared to several $1000 (or less) i7's clustered together. unfortunately, the program doesnt have a distributed model for rendering like 3dmax or any of the dedicated rendering software solutions, where you can distribute the render to several machines. as the program that we use it customized an we do not want to change our process.