Paper Info
Title
Complementarity between Virtualization and Single System Image Technologies
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-642-00955-6_6
Euro-Par Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
different configuration,available resource,overall platform resources utilization,better address cluster,management flexibility,ssi technology,virtual machine,advanced resource management capability,cluster productivity,simultaneous usage,single system image,virtualization,cluster,resource management,resource manager,resource utilization
Virtualization,Complementarity (molecular biology),Resource management,Single system image,Virtual machine,Abstraction,Live migration,Computer science,Parallel computing,Image processing,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5415
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jérôme Gallard1132.50
Geoffroy Vallée212315.62
Adrien Lèbre3597.38
Christine Morin443534.65
Pascal Gallard5958.70
Stephen L. Scott674870.99