High performance virtual machine migration with RDMA over modern interconnects

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 11-20

  Huang, Wei ^a   Gao, Qi ^a   Liu, Jiuxing ^b   Panda, Dhabaleswar K ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; DATA-CENTERS; HIGH-SPEED INTERCONNECTS; INFINIBAND; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MIGRATION TIME; PERFORMANCE IMPACTS; PHYSICAL NODES; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; REMOTE DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS; TCP/IP PROTOCOLS; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 53349098107     PISSN: 15525244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2007.4629212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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