Performance implications of virtualizing multicore cluster machines

2nd Workshop on System-level Virtualization for High Performance Computing, HPCVirt 2008, held in conjunction with EuroSys 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-8

  Ranadive, Adit ^a   Kesavan, Mukil ^a   Gavrilovska, Ada ^a   Schwan, Karsten ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

High performance computing; Infiniband; Visualization

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER INTERCONNECT; CLUSTER MACHINES; HARDWARE SUPPORTS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS; HIGH PERFORMANCE NETWORKS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HIGHER DEGREES; HYPERVISOR; INFINIBAND; MULTI CORES; MULTI-CORE CLUSTERS; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; RESOURCE-SHARING; SIMULTANEOUS USE; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

VISUALIZATION;

QUEUEING NETWORKS;

EID: 63149156799     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1435452.1435453     Document Type: Conference Paper

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