Performance of CUDA virtualized remote GPUs in high performance clusters

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 365-374

  Duato, José ^a   Peña, Antonio J ^a   Silla, Federico ^a   Mayo, Rafael ^b   Quintana Ortí, Enrique S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clusters; CUDA; Graphics processors (GPUs); High performance computing; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERS; CUDA; GRAPHICS PROCESSOR; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA TRANSFER; ETHERNET; ETHERS; MIDDLEWARE; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; THROUGHPUT; VIRTUAL REALITY;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 80155140345     PISSN: 01903918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPP.2011.58     Document Type: Conference Paper

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