There are many Virtualization software offerings for computing nodes in Cloud Computing. I am working on Scientific Cloud Computing Project, and I am Interested to know from experts Working in "HPC Clouds" about the Availability of Virtualization software offerings for "HPC Cluster Virtualization" both commercially as well as in Open-source , along with their features.
Parallels Workstation, VirtualBox, Virtual Iron, Oracle VM, Virtual PC, Virtual Server, Hyper-V, VMware Workstation, VMware Server, KVM
There's a good paper, explaining about the comparability of four virtualization tools : Vserver, UML, Xen, VMWare.
Scalability Comparison of Four Host Virtualization Tools (2007)
Quétier, Benjamin. Neri, Vincent. Cappello, Franck
Journal of Grid Computing @SpringerLink, Volume 5, page 83–98
You can read some posts by Josh Simons (HPC Specialist at VMware) for some information about VMware and HPC: http://cto.vmware.com/author/joshsimons/
I recommend taking a look at the IEEE Cloud paper regarding hypervisor performance, specifically for HPC applications and benchmarks. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
A. Younge, R. Henschel, J. Brown, G. Laszewski, J. Qiu, and G. Fox, “Analysis of Virtualization Technologies for High Performance Computing
Environments,” in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2011), Washington, DC, 2011.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6008687&tag=1
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