Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on May 16th, 2009
SmartConnectTM software, running on the BLADE Ethernet switches, decouples server provisioning and network configuration tasks. Server capacity can be scaled by server administrators without requiring configuration of VLANs, spanning tree, routing protocols, or other network details via an intuitive drag-and-drop GUI interface. This allows server administrators the flexibility to reconfigure servers without involving network administrators. On [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 16th, 2009
OVF is a Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standard that enables virtual machines or appliances to be imported and exported. Virtual appliances are one or more virtual machines that are pre-installed and configured so they can be shared, published and distributed. VirtualBox 2.2 software enables users to build virtual machines or appliances and effortlessly export [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing on Feb 4th, 2009
There is an interesting paper about Remus here that looks at how to improve the dependancy of legacy machines by using virtual machines. Full abstract below:
Allowing applications to survive hardware failure is an expensive undertaking, which generally involves re-engineering software to include complicated recovery logic as well as deploying special-purpose hardware; this represents a severe barrier to [...]
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