The virtualization layer in an HCI system consists of a hypervisor and multiple VMs that deliver the underlying hardware as logical services. Without that layer, an HCI implementation would be nothing more than a pile of hardware. In theory, the physical layer can be made up of any assortment of specialized or commodity hardware. The […]

The Parallels Desktop application, better known as a hypervisor, aides computing by leveraging the hardware resources of a device to efficiently run more than one OS at the same time, from the same system. Macs using Parallels can create any number of virtual machines (VMs) and run them sequentially alongside the underlying macOS to take […]

The HPC field hasn’t always had the closest of relationships with the cloud. Concerns about the performance of the workloads on a hypervisor running in the cloud, the speed of the networking and capacity of storage, the security and privacy of the research data and results, and the investments of millions of dollars already made […]