Paper Info
Title
A Study On The Evaluation Of Hpc Microservices In Containerized Environment
Abstract
Containers are gaining popularity over virtual machines as they provide the advantages of virtualization with the performance of near bare metal. The uniformity of support provided by Docker containers across different cloud providers makes them a popular choice for developers. Evolution of microservice architecture allows complex applications to be structured into independent modular components making them easier to manage. High-performance computing (HPC) applications are one such application to be deployed as microservices, placing significant resource requirements on the container framework. However, there is a possibility of interference between different microservices hosted within the same container (intracontainer) and different containers (intercontainer) on the same physical host. In this paper, we describe an extensive experimental investigation to determine the performance evaluation of Docker containers executing heterogeneous HPC microservices. We are particularly concerned with how intracontainer and intercontainer interference influences the performance. Moreover, we investigate the performance variations in Docker containers when control groups (cgroups) are used for resource limitation. For ease of presentation and reproducibility, we use Cloud Evaluation Experiment Methodology (CEEM) to conduct our comprehensive set of experiments. We expect that the results of evaluation can be used in understanding the behavior of HPC microservices in the interfering containerized environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1002/cpe.5323
CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
container, docker, interference, microservice, performance evaluation
Journal
33
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
7
1532-0626
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Devki Nandan Jha1427.37
Saurabh Kumar Garg2126357.89
Prem Prakash Jayaraman337844.66
R. Buyya452234.33
Zheng Li5508.75
Graham Morgan681.96
Rajiv Ranjan74747267.72