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Re:Zerg demo – Xen instance spawned for each web request by asabil on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @05:12AM (#5243549)
This is an OS-less web server VM, basically an modified Erlang VM to run directly on "almost" bare-metal
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Re:Zerg demo – Xen instance spawned for each web request by viktorsovietov on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @05:18AM (#5243567)
Actually, we didn't modify Ericsson's Erlang VM, we have written our own.
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Re:Zerg demo – Xen instance spawned for each web request by thepumpkin1979 on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @05:23AM (#5243577)
Impressive, is that what Zerg is about? where can I find more information about this?
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Re:Zerg demo – Xen instance spawned for each web request by Zolomon on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @05:35AM (#5243608)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zergling#Zerg or

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/zerg-rush

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Re:Zerg demo – Xen instance spawned for each web request by viktorsovietov on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @05:44AM (#5243622)
Zerg is just a demo that shows how elastic and scalable could be OSless VMs even over current cloud infrastructure
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