A team of researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and two universities have successfully demonstrated "virtualization" on Sandia's Red Storm supercomputer, a technique that could broaden access to high performance computers by allowing them to run a wide range of operating systems on a single machine. Supercomputers like the big machines built for the National Nuclear Security Administration are notorious for the specialized nature of the operating systems and software they run, making it difficult to move projects between the varying architectures of different machines. The new project, done with researchers from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico, offers the potential to run a variety of operating systems, making the supercomputer more flexible and accessible to different research projects.
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