As will be described in more detail below, each enterprise supercomputer (e.g., system 100) runs a single instance of an operating system. Both the operating system, and any applications, can be standard commercially available software and can run on system 100. In the examples described herein, the operating system is Linux, however other operating systems can also be used, such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, or FreeBSD.
In a traditional virtualized computing environment, multiple virtual machines may run on a single physical machine. This scenario is depicted in