I've wondered about this using single or dual quad-core machines with one spindle per core, and partitioning them out into 2, 4, 8, whatever virtual machines, possibly marking each physical box as a "rack".
There would be some initial and ongoing sysadmin costs. But could this increase thoughput on a small cluster, of 2 or 3 boxes with 16 or 24 cores, with many jobs by limiting the number of cores each job runs on, to say 8? Has anyone tried such a setup? On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Brad C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I've been brainstorming recently and its always been in the back of my > mind, hadoop offers the functionality of clustering comodity systems > together, but how would one go about virtualising them apart again? > > Kind Regards > > Brad :) >
