System-level virtualization for high performance computing

Proceedings of the 16th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 636-643

  Vallée, Geoffroy ^a   Engelmann, Christian ^a   Naughton, Thomas ^a   Ong, Hong ^a   Scott, Stephen L ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

BALANCE (WEIGHTING); COMMODITY PROCESSORS; EFFICIENT SOLUTIONS; FAULT SYSTEMS; HARDWARE SUPPORTS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HIPC); LARGE-SCALE SYSTEMS; OPERATING SYSTEMS (OS); SERVER CONSOLIDATION; SYSTEM LEVELS; VIRTUAL MACHINE (VM); VIRTUALIZATION; WORK LOADS;

SOLUTIONS;

EID: 47349110893     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PDP.2008.85     Document Type: Conference Paper

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