Recommendations for virtualization technologies in high performance computing

Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 409-416

  Regola, Nathan ^a   Ducom, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

10-GBIT/S; DISASTER RECOVERY; HARDWARE PLATFORM; HIGH DEMAND; HIGH THROUGHPUT; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HOST CHANNEL ADAPTERS; HYPERVISOR; I/O PERFORMANCE; IF THERE ARE; INFINIBAND; INFINIBAND CLUSTERS; MAXIMIZE THROUGHPUT; MEMORY MANAGEMENT; NETWORK-BASED; OPERATING SYSTEMS; SERVER CONSOLIDATION; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUAL MACHINE TECHNOLOGY; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; SERVERS; TECHNOLOGY; THROUGHPUT;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 79952411416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CloudCom.2010.71     Document Type: Conference Paper

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