David Mathog wrote:
Getting back to the original subject, what would this Cray box "look
like" when it is running windows? Does it show up as one desktop for
everything (basically an SMP machine), one desktop per blade, one per
processor(or core), or even virtualized, with more than one desktop per
core? In terms of administering the box the first of these would be by
far the easiest to deal with, since there would only be the one copy of
Windows present.
I seriously doubt that MS is presenting the entire system as a huge SMP.
If it's the case, I'd stay away from it since it implies that either you
have to use a proprietary API to get performance (inter-core
communications à la MPI) or that the model is OpenMosix ish...which IMHO
is a nice theory, horrible practice model. My impression/technical view
of it is that the system most probably runs off a "master" board with
slave boards which boot using a network image (pretty much like NFS
roots). It is the most logical approach, again, IMHO (single point of
management and all)
Regards,
David Mathog
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