Enhance virtualized HPC system based on I/O behavior perception and asymmetric scheduling

Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC-2012 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS-2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 169-178

  Hu, Yanyan ^a   Long, Xiang ^a   Zhang, Jiong ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud; HPC; I O; Scheduling; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING NODES; COMPUTING PERFORMANCE; CPU-INTENSIVE; HPC; I/O OPERATIONS; INTENSITY VARIATIONS; ROUND-ROBIN SCHEDULING; RUNTIMES; SCHEDULING MODELS; SCHEDULING SCHEMES; SHORT PERIODS; TEMPORAL GRANULARITY; VIRTUAL CLUSTERS; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CLOUDS; COMMUNICATION; EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; SCHEDULING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870468310     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPCC.2012.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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