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Title: Opportunities for leveraging OS virtualization in high-end supercomputing.

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OSTI ID:1035313

This paper examines potential motivations for incorporating virtualization support in the system software stacks of high-end capability supercomputers. We advocate that this will increase the flexibility of these platforms significantly and enable new capabilities that are not possible with current fixed software stacks. Our results indicate that compute, virtual memory, and I/O virtualization overheads are low and can be further mitigated by utilizing well-known techniques such as large paging and VMM bypass. Furthermore, since the addition of virtualization support does not affect the performance of applications using the traditional native environment, there is essentially no disadvantage to its addition.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
1035313
Report Number(s):
SAND2010-8287C; TRN: US201204%%540
Resource Relation:
Conference: Proposed for presentation at the Workshop on Micro Architectural Support for Virtualization held December 5, 2010 in Atlanta, GA.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English