[Beowulf] Have machine, will compute: ESXi or bare metal?

[Benson Muite]

Take a look at the bootable cluster CD here:
http://www.littlefe.net/


On Mon, Feb 10, 2020, at 1:54 AM, Mark Kosmowski wrote:
> I purchased a Cisco UCS C460 M2 (4 @ 10 core Xeons, 128 GB total RAM) for $115 in my local area. If I used ESXi (free license), I am limited to 8 vcpu per VM. Could I make a virtual Beowulf cluster out of some of these VMs? I'm thinking this way I can learn cluster admin without paying the power bill for my ancient Opteron boxes and also scratch my illumos itch while computing on Linux.

> Thank you!

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