vSMP (Massive SMP Across a Cluster)

[BDMcGrewVM]

Greetings all!

Feel free to tell me I'm crazy if you like, but I need to build a supercomputer without actually, you know, building a supercomputer!  We have an application that has sucked all the processing power a 2 processor, 48 core box has to give.  But, the application is not supercompute aware!

Enter vSphere...

I want to build a cluster:

4 Nodes,

Dual 24C Processors,

256GB RAM,

10Gb-E

For a combination of 8 CPUs, 192 cores, 1TB of RAM,

and deploy a single VM across all of it,

having all the hardware, in all the nodes,

presented to a single guest, for complete consumption.

Is this doable with vSphere?

thanks,

-brian

[MBrownWFP]

No this wont work the way you've described, a VM runs on a single host in the cluster. You can over-commit memory and CPU but the VM is limited to the compute boundaries of the single host it is running on.

Quad (or more) socket server may be your best option. Dell R930 or similar

[BDMcGrewVM]

Thank you.  You've given me the answer I needed (of course, not really the one I _wated_ lol).

My application is core dependent.  The more cores I throw at it, the faster I process the data.  So, I guess I start looking at coding for OpenMP.

thanks...

-brian