Enhancing the Usability and Utilization of Accelerated Architectures via Docker

Proceedings - 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 361-367

  Haydel, Nicholas ^a   Gesing, Sandra ^a   Taylor, Ian ^b,c   Madey, Gregory ^a   Dakkak, Abdul ^d   De Gonzalo, Simon Garcia ^d   Hwu, Wen Mei W ^d  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

accelerated architectures; cloud computing; Docker; virtual machine; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONTAINERS; LIBRARIES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

ACCELERATED METHOD; ACCESS TO RESOURCES; APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; DOCKER; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84965031169     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/UCC.2015.57     Document Type: Conference Paper

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