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Gimsly
10-20-2011, 11:21 PM
I was wondering if anyone knew about or was interested in putting together a folding appliance for VMware vSphere.

The tool for doing it is free and can be found here --->> http://www.vmware.com/appliances/getting-started/learn/studio/overview.html

I'm interested in testing this on some of the hardware I now have available at my disposal.
Grandpa
10-21-2011, 01:00 AM
Because of the way Gromacs runs it does not work very well with cloud computing. 1 step has to complete before the next step can begin there is to much loss in transfer speeds between the computers comunication for it to be affective or effiecent.
Joshua_Mahr
10-21-2011, 01:24 AM
I have a question for you grandpa. If I had 4 2600k's all at 4.7Ghz connected by 10Gb network. Could I make FAH see it as one 32 core machine?
Gimsly
10-21-2011, 01:45 AM
Grandpa.

Even if I just assign a single core to a single virtual machine? After that, I was thinking of running the client in each virtual machine. So that would be one client instance per virtual machine. No? That wouldn't be effective?
Gimsly
10-21-2011, 02:11 AM
Actually, I found this over on the EVGA forums --->> http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=4464

I'm going to try it tomorrow and leave it running over the weekend to see.
Grandpa
10-21-2011, 07:03 PM
I have a question for you grandpa. If I had 4 2600k's all at 4.7Ghz connected by 10Gb network. Could I make FAH see it as one 32 core machine?

Yes you can but it would be very slow due to the communication problem between the computers. 10GB connection is no where near as fast as the cores communicate with themselves on the chip using the on die memory lanes. Unfortunately 31 of your cores would be waiting for 1 core to finish it's step before receiving instructions on the next step.
Grandpa
10-21-2011, 07:05 PM
Actually, I found this over on the EVGA forums --->> http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=4464

I'm going to try it tomorrow and leave it running over the weekend to see.

That will work without any problems that is linuxFah but it is totally diffrent than what you asked about (Cloud computing) LinuxFah is just running FAH on a VM, It is not running in a cloud.