Empirical study of performance benefits of hardware assisted virtualization

Compute 2013 - 6th ACM India Computing Convention: Next Generation Computing Paradigms and Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ganesan, Rajeshwari ^a   Murarka, Yogesh ^a   Sarkar, Santonu ^a   Frey, Kristoffer ^b  

^a INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD   (India)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

benchmarking; hardware assistance; performance overhead; SR IOV; virtualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEADS; PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITIES; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; PERFORMANCE OVERHEAD; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; SR-IOV; VIRTUALIZATIONS; VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT;

HARDWARE; TECHNOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84888149970     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2522548.2522598     Document Type: Conference Paper

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