| Publisher | Hewlett-Packard | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | 354.9KB PDF | Date added | 07 Jan 2007 |
| Topics | Infrastructure Management, Data Center, High Performance Computing, Virtualization | ||
| Downloads | 5 | ||
Virtualization can enhance the functionality and ease the management of current and future Grids by enabling on demand creation of services and virtual clusters with customized environments, QoS provisioning and policy-based resource allocation. This paper considers the use of Virtual Machines (VMs) in a data-center environment, where a significant portion of resources from a shared pool are dedicated to Grid job processing. The goal is to improve efficiency while supporting a variety of different workloads. The analysis reveals that a large fraction of Grid jobs have low CPU utilization, which suggests that using virtual machines to isolate execution of different Grid jobs on the shared hardware might be beneficial for optimizing the data-center resource usage.
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