GPU passthrough performance: A comparison of KVM, Xen, VMWare ESXi, and LXC for CUDA and openCL applications

IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 636-643

  Walters, John Paul ^a   Younge, Andrew J ^b   Kang, Dong In ^a   Yao, Ke Thia ^a   Kang, Mikyung ^a   Crago, Stephen P ^a   Fox, Geoffrey C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GPU passthrough; KVM; LXC; virtualization; VMWare; Xen

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; VIRTUAL MACHINE; VIRTUALIZATION;

BASE SYSTEMS; LOW OVERHEAD; MICRO ARCHITECTURES; MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR; POWER EFFICIENCY; SCIENTIFIC WORKLOADS; TWO PROCESSORS; VMWARE;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84919792604     PISSN: 21596182     EISSN: 21596190     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD.2014.90     Document Type: Conference Paper

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