An evaluation of multiple communication interfaces for virtualized SMP clusters

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on System-level Virtualization for High Performance Computing, HPCVirt'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 9-16

  Atif, Muhammad ^a   Strazdins, Peter ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication interfaces; MPI; SMP clusters; Virtualization; Xen

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION INTERFACES; MPI; SMP CLUSTERS; VIRTUALIZATION; XEN;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ETHERNET; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

ARTS COMPUTING;

EID: 70349161494     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1519138.1519140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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