Performance implications of virtualization and hyper-threading on high energy physics applications in a grid environment

Proceedings - 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Gilbert, Laura ^a   Tseng, Jeff ^a   Newman, Rhys ^a   Iqbal, Saeed ^b   Pepper, Ronald ^b   Celebioglu, Onur ^b   Hsieh, Jenwei ^b   Cobban, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DELL INC   (United States)

^c Dell Inc   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLAS EXPERIMENT; CERN; COMMODITY CLUSTER; GEANT4; VIRTUAL COMPUTE NODE; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SECURITY SYSTEMS; THROUGHPUT;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33746304864     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2005.338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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