High performance and scalable I/O virtualization via self-virtualized devices

Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing 2007, HPDC'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 179-188

  Raj, Himanshu ^a   Schwan, Karsten ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Virtual devices; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; MAINTENANCE; SERVERS;

SELF-VIRTUALIZED NETWORK INTERFACE (SV-NIC); SYSTEM MAINTENANCE; VIRTUALIZATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 34548078618     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1272366.1272390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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