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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2009

Complementarity between Virtualization and Single System Image Technologies

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Nowadays, the use of clusters in research centers or industries is undeniable. Since few years, the usage of virtual machines (VM) offers more advanced resource management capabilities, using features such as virtual machine live migration. Because of the latest contributions in the domain, some may argue that single system image (SSI) technologies are now deprecated, without considering some complementarities between VMs and SSI technologies are possible. After evaluating different configurations, we show that combining both approaches allows us to better address cluster challenges such as flexibility for the usage of available resources and simplicity of use. In other terms, the study shows that VMs add a level of management flexibility between the hardware and the application, whereas, SSIs give an abstraction of the distributed resources. The simultaneous usage of both technologies could improve the overall platform resources utilization, the cluster productivity and the efficiency of the running applications.

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inria-00419191 , version 1 (22-09-2009)

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Jérôme Gallard, Geoffroy Vallée, Adrien Lebre, Christine Morin, Pascal Gallard, et al.. Complementarity between Virtualization and Single System Image Technologies. Euro-Par 2008 Workshops - Parallel Processing: VHPC 2008, UNICORE 2008, HPPC 2008, SGS 2008, PROPER 2008, ROIA 2008, and DPA 2008, Aug 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-00955-6_6⟩. ⟨inria-00419191⟩
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