[Beowulf] Virtualisation and high performance interconnects.

[Greg Lindahl]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:11:08PM -0700, Gilad Shainer wrote:

> Good way to solve this is to use IO that offloads
> the VMM, and that move back the "network" jobs from the VMM back to the
> network. IO channels with ability to do the protection as part of the
> adapter, eliminate the overhead that the VMM creates and get you the
> same performance of a native OS. 

Gilad has a hammer -- and every problem is a nail.

-- greg