No reason you can’t, especially if you’re not interested in benchmark runs (there’s a chance that if you ran a lot of heavily-loaded VMs, there could be CPU contention on the host).
Any cluster development work I’ve done lately has used VMware VMs exclusively. On Feb 9, 2020, at 7:10 PM, Mark Kosmowski <mark.kosmow...@solidstatecomputation.com> wrote: External Email Warning This email originated from outside the university. Please use caution when opening attachments, clicking links, or responding to requests. ________________________________ I purchased a Cisco UCS C460 M2 (4 @ 10 core Xeons, 128 GB total RAM) for $115 in my local area. If I used ESXi (free license), I am limited to 8 vcpu per VM. Could I make a virtual Beowulf cluster out of some of these VMs? I'm thinking this way I can learn cluster admin without paying the power bill for my ancient Opteron boxes and also scratch my illumos itch while computing on Linux. Thank you! _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
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