About the meaning of compute nodes

Pierre Riteau pierre at stackhpc.com
Thu Aug 11 14:20:32 UTC 2022


On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at 15:52, Bernd Bausch <berndbausch at gmail.com> wrote:

> A VM is contained in a single compute node. There is no way for a VM to
> "span" several nodes.
>
> On 2022/08/10 3:56 PM, 정재철 wrote:
> > If there are many nodes, is it possible to create a high-performance VM?
> > (e.g. Can 2 1 core cpu nodes create 1 2 core cpu VM)
>

A brief Google search found this research project called GiantVM which is
implementing a distributed hypervisor [1] [2]. But of course in the context
of OpenStack or production systems in general, your answer is completely
valid.

[1] https://giantvm.github.io
[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3505251
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