Sandia supercomputer boots a million virtual machines

Government Computer News (Aug 6 2009) Supercomputer

1. Computer scientists at the Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories have simultaneously booted one million Linux kernels, all of which ran as virtual machines on the labs' Thunderbird supercomputer. The researchers, Ron Minnich and Don Rudish, hope to use their million virtual-machine network to better understand how botnets operate. A million virtual machine is the largest number that has ever been spun up on a single system, to the best of the researchers' knowledge. Previously, they were only able to boot 20,000 virtual instances at once. (Read Full Article)

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