SnowFlock: Rapid virtual Machine cloning for cloud computing

Proceedings of the 4th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-12

  Lagar Cavilla, H Andrés ^a   Whitney, Joseph A ^a   Scannell, Adin ^a   Patchin, Philip ^a   Rumble, Stephen M ^a   De Lara, Eyal ^a   Brudno, Michael ^a   Satyanarayanan, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; IN-FIELD; INITIAL STATE; ON-THE-FLY; PARALLEL COMPUTING; RUNTIME OVERHEADS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATION;

ABSTRACTING; BIOINFORMATICS; CLONING; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 70349084447     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1519065.1519067     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (38)

1. S. F. Altschul, T. L. Madden, A. A. Schaffer, J. Zhang, Z. Zhang, W. Miller, and D. J. Lipman. Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acids Res., 25:3389-3402, 1997.
2. A. A. Apodaka and L. Gritz. Advanced Render-Man: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures. Academic Press, 2000.
3. Aqsis: Open source 3D rendering solution adhering to the RenderMan standard.http://aqsis.org/.
4. th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Bolton Landing, NY, October 2003.
5. P. J. Braam. The lustre storage architecture, 2002. http://www.lustre. org/docs/lustre.pdf.
6. th Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), Washington, DC, 2003.
7. nd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Boston, MA, May 2005.
8. th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Francisco, CA, April 2008.
9. th Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI), San Francisco, CA, December 2004.
10. samba.org. distcc: a fast, free distributed C/C++ compiler. http://distcc.samba.org/.
11. European Bioinformatics Institute. ClustalW2. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/ clustalw2/index.html.
12. Amazon.com. EC2: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ .
13. W Emeneker and D. Stanzione. Dynamic Virtual Clustering. In Proc. Cluster, Austin, TX, September 2007.
14. I. Foster, T. Freeman, K. Keahey, D. Scheftner, B. So-tomayor, and X. Zhang. Virtual Clusters for Grid Communities. In Proc. Cluster Computing and the Grid, Singapore, May 2006.
15. st Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Brisbane, Australia, May 2001.
16. Apache.org. Hadoop. http://hadoop.apache. org/core/.
17. M. Hibler, R. Ricci, L. Stoller, J. Duerig, S. Guruprasad, T. Stack, K. Webb, and J. Lepreau. Large-scale Virtualization in the Emulab Network Testbed. In Proc. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, June 2008.
18. M. Hibler, L. Stoller, J. Lepreau, R. Ricci, and C. Barb. Fast, Scalable Disk Imaging with Frisbee. In Proc. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 2003.
19. W. Huang, Q. Gao, J. Liu, and D. K. Panda. High Performance Virtual Machine Migration with RDMA over Modern Interconnects. In Proc. Cluster, Austin, TX, September 2007.
20. th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA), Callicoon, NY, June 2002.
21. rm International Middleware Conference, Newport Beach, CA, November 2007.
22. st LISA, Dallas, TX, November 2007.
23. Argonne National Laboratory. MPICH2. http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/ projects/mpich2/.
24. National Center for Biotechnology Information. BLAST: Basic Local Alignment and Search Tool. http://blast. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi.
25. RenderMan. https://renderman.pixar.com/.
26. Platform Computing. Platform EGO Home. http://my.platform.com/products/ platform-ego-de.
27. QuantLib: A Free/Open-source Library for Quantitative Finance.http://quantlib.org/index. shtml.
28. th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Boston, MA, December 2002.
29. University of Toronto. SHRiMP: SHort Read Mapping Package. http://compbio.cs.toronto.edu/shrimp/.
30. University of Toronto. SnowFlock: Swift VM Cloning for Cloud Computing. http://sysweb.cs. toronto.edu/snowflock.
31. th Integrated Network Management (IM) conference, Munich, Germany, 2007.
32. th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Orcas Island, WA, December 1985.
33. VMware. VMotion: Migrate Virtual Machines with Zero Downtime. http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/vc/vmotion.html.
34. th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Brighton, UK, October 2005.
35. th Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI), Boston, MA, 2002.
36. A. Warfield, S. Hand, K. Fraser, and T. Deegan. Facilitating the development of soft devices. In Proc. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Anaheim, CA, April 2005.
37. T. Wood, P. Shenoy, A. Venkataramani, and M. Yousif. Black-box and Gray-box Strategies for Virtual Machine Migration. In Proc. 4th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Cambridge, MA, April 2007.
38. th Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP), Austin, TX, November 1987.