Research Area: Cloud Security
The use of virtualization technologies in high performance computing (HPC) environments has traditionally been avoided due to their inherent performance overhead. However, with the rise of container-based virtualization implementations, such as Linux VServer, OpenVZ and Linux Containers (LXC), it is possible to obtain a very low overhead leading to near-native performance. In this work, we conducted a number of experiments in order to perform an in-depth performance evaluation of container-based virtualization for HPC. We also evaluated the trade-off between performance and isolation in container-based virtualization systems and compared them with Xen, which is a representative of the traditional hypervisor-based virtualization systems used today.
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Author(s) Name: Miguel G. Xavier; Marcelo V. Neves; Fabio D. Rossi; Tiago C. Ferreto; Timoteo Lange; Cesar A. F. De Rose
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Conferrence name: 2013 21st Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing
Publisher name: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PDP.2013.41
Volume Information: Volume 2013
