The Concept:-
Generally in an office setup, a normal Pentium 400 MHz system with 256 >MB RAM, 100 MHz bus and a 10 GB HDD is sufficient for doing letter >writing, data entry, email, surfing, printing etc. Suppose an office >needs to use 8 computers for 8 operators, with different OSes for >different software or even same OSes, 8 computer systems will need to >be purchased. 8 computer systems will have to be taken for AMCs ( Yeah >! ).
Instead of that if all the hardware requirements are bundled up into one system then that would bring down costs.
The CPU will be 400 MHz X 8 = 3.2 GHz. The RAM 256 MB X 8 = 2 GB. The BUS speed 100 MHz X 8 = 800 MHZ. The HDD 10 GB X 8 = 80 GB
In this way we can get upto 8 different (or even same) OSes running >simultaneously in one system. as the total number of machines is only >one instead of 8. Since the hardware resources are common, a LAN will >not be required to make the 8 computers see each other within the same >system.
Hey Rony !! What I am confused about is : if I have a requirement of 8 different OSes for different types of development work, what good is a single machine to me ? I have 8 people working on 8 different modules. So a single machine ain't gonna suffice.
The best solution is to have one high-end Server and maybe other diskless nodes. Otherwise, only one person can utilize the full capacity of 8 OSes running simultaneously.
Please correct me where I have gone wrong in grasping your concept !!
Thanks Raseel Bhagat
Raseel Bhagat wrote:
Hey Rony !! What I am confused about is : if I have a requirement of 8 different OSes for different types of development work, what good is a single machine to me ? I have 8 people working on 8 different modules. So a single machine ain't gonna suffice.
The best solution is to have one high-end Server and maybe other diskless nodes. Otherwise, only one person can utilize the full capacity of 8 OSes running simultaneously.
Please correct me where I have gone wrong in grasping your concept !!
Thanks Raseel Bhagat
Hello Raseel,
If the people ( total 8 ) can get their work done on individual machines of Pentium 400 MHz cpu, 256 MB ram, 100 MHz bus and 10 GB hdd then the same work could be done on a single latest machine which has 8 times the capacity of *those* single machines. I was following the ongoing discussion by the experts, on running 2 OSes in a single machine and since the question of its use, was an answer still about experimenting only, I was wondering how this could be put to use in real life and how could it be of any benefit. Thats how I thought of this concept. The 8 OSes in one is just an example, it can be less if the work load is more or vice versa. In order to give equal benefits to all users, I suggested making the BIOS more advanced, so that some sort of a quota can be given to each combination of user created RAM partition, HDD, internal BUS and PCI node that will run each OS. Another software option would be to create a foundation OS frame that presets this quota into hardware soft groups and then load normal OSes as if it were a normal installation by choosing any available free hardware soft group.
All these methods would require a lot of experimenting and research to be done before some workable solution comes up.
Using a high performance server and thin clients would not make the system heterogenous.
Regards,
Rony.
On 20/02/05 21:35 +0530, Rony Bill wrote: <snip>
All these methods would require a lot of experimenting and research to be done before some workable solution comes up.
http://www.google.com/search?q=mainframe+vm+ibm
Rather old technology, but not cheap :). PCs are cheap, but not of the same quality.
Devdas Bhagat
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