Effects of Virtualization on a scientific application running a hyperspectral radiative transfer code on virtual machines

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 16-23

  Tikotekar, Anand ^a   Vallée, Geoffroy ^a   Naughton, Thomas ^a   Ong, Hong ^a   Engelmann, Christian ^a   Scott, Stephen L ^a   Filippi, Anthony M ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FAULT TOLERANCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

CODE RUNNINGS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HYDROLIGHT; HYPER-SPECTRAL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER CODES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS; REAL-WORLD; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE CONFIGURATIONS; SYSTEM LEVELS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATION;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 63149166476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1435452.1435455     Document Type: Conference Paper

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