Evaluating hardware-assisted virtualization for deploying HPC-as-a-service

VTDC 2013 - Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 11-19

  Palit, Henry N ^a   Li, Xiaorong ^a   Lu, Sifei ^a   Larsen, Lars C ^b   Setia, Joseph A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b DHI Water and Environment (S) Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

Author keywords

hardware assisted virtualization; HPC on cloud; performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC); HYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATION; NATIVE ENVIRONMENT; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES; VIRTUALIZATIONS; VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT;

CLOUD COMPUTING; HARDWARE;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84880068898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2465829.2465833     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (24)

1. D. Abramson, J. Jackson, S. Muthrasanallur, G. Neiger, G. Regnier, R. Sankaran, I. Schoinas, R. Uhlig, B. Vembu, and J. Wiegert. Intel virtualization technology for directed I/O. Intel Technology Journal, 10(3):179-192, Aug 2006.
2. K. Adams and O. Agesen. A comparison of software and hardware techniques for x86 virtualization. In Proc. of 12th Intl Conf. on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), pages 2-13. ACM, Oct 2006.
3. Advanced Micro Devices. Secure virtual machine architecture reference manual (rev 3.01). May 2005.
4. Advanced Micro Devices. AMD I/O virtualization technology (IOMMU) specification (rev 1.26). Feb 2009.
5. P. Barham, B. Dragovic, K. Fraser, S. Hand, T. Harris, A. Ho, R. Neugebauer, I. Pratt, and A. Warfield. Xen and the art of virtualization. In Proc. of 19th ACM Symp. on Operation Systems Principles (SOSP), pages 164-177. ACM, Oct 2003.
6. C. Evangelinos and C. N. Hill. Cloud computing for parallel scientific HPC applications: Feasibility of running coupled atmosphere-ocean climate models on Amazon's EC2. In Proc. of Cloud Computing and Its Applications (CCA), Oct 2008.
7. A. Gupta and D. Milojicic. Evaluation of HPC applications on cloud. In Technical Report HPL-2011-132. HP Labs, Aug 2011.
8. M. Hillenbrand, V. Mauch, J. Stoess, K. Miller, and F. Bellosa. Virtual infiniband clusters for HPC clouds. In Proc. of 2nd Intl Wksh. on Cloud Computing Platforms (CloudCP, in conjunction with EuroSys), pages 9:1-9:6. ACM, Apr 2012.
9. W. Huang, J. Liu, B. Abali, and D. K. Panda. Infiniband support in xen virtual machine environment. In Technical Report OSU-CISRC-10/05-TR63. Dept. of CSE, Ohio State University, Columbus (Ohio, USA), Oct 2005.
10. W. Huang, J. Liu, B. Abali, and D. K. Panda. A case for high performance computing with virtual machines. In Proc. of 20th ACM Intl Conf. on Supercomputing (ICS), pages 125-134. ACM, Jun 2006.
11. A. Iosup, S. Ostermann, N. Yigitbasi, R. Prodan, T. Fahringer, and D. Epema. Performance analysis of cloud computing services for many-tasks scientific computing. IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 22(6):931-945, Jun 2011.
12. A. Kivity, Y. Kamay, D. Laor, U. Lublin, and A. Liguori. kvm: the linux virtual machine monitor. In Proc. of Linux Symposium, volume 1, pages 225-230, Jun 2007.
13. J. Liu, W. Huang, B. Abali, and D. K. Panda. High performance VMM-bypass I/O in virtual machines. In Proc. of USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), pages 29-42. USENIX Assn., Jun 2006.
14. P. Mell and T. Grance. The NIST definition of cloud computing. In Special Publication 800-145. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Sep 2011.
15. M. F. Mergen, V. Uhlig, O. Krieger, and J. Xenidis. Virtualization for high-performance computing. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 40(2):8-11, Apr 2006.
16. G. Neiger, A. Santoni, F. Leung, D. Rodgers, and R. Uhlig. Intel virtualization technology: Hardware support for efficient processor virtualization. Intel Technology Journal, 10(3):167-178, Aug 2006.
17. L. Nussbaum, F. Anhalt, O. Mornard, and J. P. Gelas. Linux-based virtualization for HPC clusters. In Proc. of Linux Symposium, pages 221-234, Jul 2009.
18. Qumranet. KVM: Kernel-based virtualization driver. In White Paper. Qumranet Inc., 2006.
19. N. Regola and J. C. Ducom. Recommendations for virtualization technologies in high performance computing. In Proc. of 2nd IEEE Intl Conf. on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), pages 409-416. IEEE Conf. Publications, Dec 2010.
20. E. Walker. Benchmarking Amazon EC2 for high-performance scientific computing. ;login:, 33(5):18-23, Oct 2008.
21. J. P. Walters, V. Chaudhary, M. Cha, S. Guercio, and S. Gallo. A comparison of virtualization technologies for HPC. In Proc. of 22nd IEEE Intl Conf. on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), pages 861-868. IEEE Computer Society, Mar 2008.
22. A. Whitaker, M. Shaw, and S. D. Gribble. Denali: Lightweight virtual machines for distributed and networked applications. In Technical Report UW-CSE-02-02-01. Dept. of CSE, University of Washington, Seattle (Washington, USA), Feb 2002.
23. B. A. Yassour, M. Ben-Yehuda, and O. Wasserman. Direct device assignment for untrusted fully-virtualized virtual machines. In IBM Research Report H-0263. IBM, Sep 2008.
24. A. J. Younge, R. Henschel, J. T. Brown, G. von Laszewski, J. Qiu, and G. C. Fox. Analysis of virtualization technologies for high performance computing environments. In Proc. of 4th IEEE Intl Conf. on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), pages 9-16. IEEE Conf. Publications, Jul 2011.