Thomas Varlet, of Microsoft France, and Dr. Patrice Calegari, of BULL SAS, have written an excellent paper on how to build hybrid clusters, i.e. clusters where 2 or more operating systems can be run at the same time. It is recommended reading, in my opinion,
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So, imagine this scenario: you have a rack full of servers that hum along at 20% of capacity, performing "mundane" tasks. Wouldn't it be nice to harness at least part of that remaining computing power for your batch calculations? Wouldn't it be nice to
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