Re: XEN+OpenSSI, big performace overhead?

Are you talking about the idea of partitioning a SSI cluster into
smaller SSI clusters?

Roger


On 8/3/06, Hugo Segura <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have talking with a friend about SSI clusters + XEN, then their view about
> it is:
>
> "Xen works below the kernel while SSI works at a much higher level in
> the kernel. Xen's main work is in virtualization management which is
> now supported at the processor level.
>
> Aggregating as a big system and partitioning will create big
> performance overhead and is inefficient.  Instead you can create
> multiple partitions with SSI interface itself if you work on
> hot-plug of systems which allows you to dynamically re-configure your
> partitions"
>
> What you think about?
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Hugo Segura
>
>
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