Memory buddies: Exploiting page sharing for colocation in virtualized data centers

Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, VEE'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 31-40

  Wood, Timothy ^a   Tarasuk Levin, Gabriel ^a   Shenoy, Prashant ^a   Desnoyers, Peter ^b   Cecchet, Emmanuel ^a   Corner, Mark D ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Page sharing; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

COLOCATION; CONTENT-BASED; DATA CENTERS; E-COMMERCE APPLICATIONS; EXTENSIVE MEMORY; LOW OVERHEAD; MEMORY PAGES; MULTI-SERVER; MULTIPLE SERVERS; PAGE SHARING; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATION;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; SERVERS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 67650067330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508293.1508299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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