Evaluating the performance impact of Xen on MPI and process execution for HPC systems

VTDC 2006 - 2nd International Workshop on Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing; held in Conjunction with SC06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Youseff, Lamia ^a   Wolski, Rich ^a   Gorda, Brent ^b   Krintz, Chandra ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS.; CLUSTER MANAGEMENT; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; HPC SYSTEMS; LINUX - OPERATING SYSTEM; LOAD BALANCING; OPEN SOURCES; PERFORMANCE IMPACTS; PROCESS EXECUTIONS; PROCESS MIGRATION; SERVER SYSTEMS; SYSTEM ISOLATION; VIRTUALIZATION; VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY;

CHAOTIC SYSTEMS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 48249138490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VTDC.2006.4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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