Optimizing live migration of virtual machines in SMP clusters for HPC applications

NPC 2009 - 6th International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 51-58

  Atif, Muhammad ^a   Strazdins, Peter ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; GIGABIT ETHERNET; LOAD-BALANCING; MEMORY PAGES; MIGRATION TECHNIQUE; SERVER CONSOLIDATION; SMP CLUSTERS; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

ETHERNET; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 73449144457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NPC.2009.32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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