Virtual machine scalability on multi-core processors based servers for cloud computing workloads

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, NAS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 90-97

  Hasan Jamal, M ^a   Qadeer, Abdul ^a   Mahmood, Waqar ^a   Waheed, Abdul ^b   Jason Ding, Jianxun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Multi core processors; Performance evaluation; Server scalability; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; LIMITING FACTORS; MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR; MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS; MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE THREADS; NETWORK BANDWIDTH; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE IMPACT; SCALABILITY EVALUATION; UNDERLYING SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL BRIDGES; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATION; VIRTUALIZATIONS; WIDE AREA NETWORK COMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; SCALABILITY; SERVERS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 70449395442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NAS.2009.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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