A case for dual stack virtualization: Consolidating HPC and commodity applications in the cloud

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, SoCC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kocoloski, Brian ^a   Ouyang, Jiannan ^a   Lange, John ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; High performance computing; Virtual machine monitors

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; CLOUD PROVIDERS; CLOUD SERVICES; DUAL STACK; HARDWARE RESOURCES; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; PERFORMANCE ISSUES; RESOURCE CONTENTION; SCALABLE PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

AUDIO SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; HARDWARE; WEB SERVICES;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84870490377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2391229.2391252     Document Type: Conference Paper

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