Performance evaluation of HPC benchmarks on VMware's ESXi server

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7155 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2012, Pages 213-222

  Ali, Qasim ^a   Kiriansky, Vladimir ^a   Simons, Josh ^a   Zaroo, Puneet ^a  

^a VMWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

ESXi; High Performance Computing (HPC); Non Uniform Memory Architecture (NUMA); virtual NUMA (vNUMA); virtualization

Indexed keywords

BALANCING; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TOPOLOGY; VIRTUALIZATION;

ESXI; GUEST OPERATING SYSTEMS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC); NON-UNIFORM MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITIES; PERFORMANCE LOSS; SERVER PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL NUMA (VNUMA);

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84882634461     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29737-3_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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