Cloud2011: Analysis of Virtualization Technologies for High Performance Computing Environments

The FutureGrid team will be presenting the paper "Analysis of Virtualization Technologies for High Performance Computing Environments" at The 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD) 2011.  
 

Abstract:

As Cloud computing emerges as a dominant paradigm in distributed systems, it is important to fully under- stand the underlying technologies that make clouds possible. One technology, and perhaps the most important, is virtualization. Recently virtualization, through the use of hypervisors, has become widely used and well understood by many. However, there are a large spread of different hypervisors, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. This manuscript provides an in-depth analysis of some of today’s commonly accepted virtualization technologies from feature comparison to perfor- mance analysis, focusing on the applicability to High Performance Computing environments using FutureGrid resources. The results indicate virtualization sometimes introduces slight performance impacts depending on the hypervisor type, however the benefits of such technologies are profound and not all virtualization technologies are equal.
 

Authors:

Andrew J. Younge, Robert Henschel, James T. Brown, Gregor von Laszewski, Judy Qiu, Geoffrey C. Fox
Pervasive Technology Institute, Indiana University
2729 E 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47408, U.S.A.
{ajyounge,henschel,jatbrown,gvonlasz,xqiu,gcf}@indiana.edu

Venue:

IEEE CLOUD 2011: The Fourth International Conference on Cloud Computing
July 4-9, 2011
Washington Marriott, Washington D.C. U.S.A.