Better than native: Using virtualization to improve compute node performance

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers, ROSS 2012 - In Conjunction with: ICS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kocoloski, Brian ^a   Lange, John ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINUX ENVIRONMENT; NODE PERFORMANCE; RUNNING-IN; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

SUPERCOMPUTERS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84864772040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2318916.2318926     Document Type: Conference Paper

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