Providing a cloud network infrastructure on a supercomputer

HPDC 2010 - Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 385-394

  Appavoo, Jonathan ^a   Uhlig, Volkmar ^b   Stoess, Jan ^c   Waterland, Amos ^d   Rosenburg, Bryan ^d   Wisniewski, Robert ^d   Da Silvay, Dilma ^d   Van Hensbergeny, Eric ^d   Steinbergz, Udo ^e  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Aster Data Inc   (United States)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^e DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

High performance cloud computing; High performance computing; Supercomputer network models; Supercomputing infrastructure as a service; User level networking

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES; COMMUNICATION HARDWARE; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICES; LOW COSTS; LOW POWER; NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE; PERFORMANCE LOSS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE; USER-LEVEL NETWORKING; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 78649983234     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1851476.1851534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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