I/O performance of virtualized cloud environments

DataCloud'11 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds, Co-located with SC'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 71-80

  Ghoshal, Devarshi ^a   Canon, R Shane ^b   Ramakrishnan, Lavanya ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud; I O benchmarking; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATION; DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; I/O PERFORMANCE; LARGE SCALE TESTS; MAGELLAN; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

BENCHMARKING; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84856361507     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2087522.2087535     Document Type: Conference Paper

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