Analyzing & modeling the performance in Xen-based virtual cluster environment

Proceedings - 2010 12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 273-280

  Ye, Kejiang ^a   Jiang, Xiaohong ^a   Chen, Siding ^a   Huang, Dawei ^a   Wang, Bei ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

HPC; Modeling; Performance; Virtualization; Xen

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149306475     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPCC.2010.79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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