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A Case for High Performance Computing With Virtual Machines

PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Format197.4KB PDFDate added30 Jun 2006
Topics Programming Languages, High Performance Computing
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Virtual Machine (VM) technologies are experiencing a resurgence in both industry and research communities. VMs offer many desirable features such as security, ease of management, OS customization, performance isolation, check-pointing, and migration, which can be very beneficial to the performance and the manageability of High Performance Computing (HPC) applications. This paper presents a case for HPC with virtual machines by introducing a framework which addresses the performance and management overhead associated with VM-based computing.

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