Providing a Cloud Network Infrastructure on a Supercomputer

  • Autor:

    Jonathan Appavoo, Volkmar Uhlig, Jan Stoess, Amos Waterland, Bryan Rosenburg, Robert Wisniewski, Dilma Da Silva, Eric Van Hensbergen, and Udo Steinberg

  • Quelle:

    Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 21-25, 2010, pp. 385-394

  • Datum: 06.2010
  • Abstract:

    Supercomputers and clouds both strive to make a large number of computing cores available for computation. More recently, similar objectives such as low-power, manageability at scale, and low cost of ownership are driving a more converged hardware and software. Challenges remain, however, of which one is that current cloud infrastructure does not yield the performance sought by many scientific applications. A source of the performance loss comes from virtualization and virtualization of the network in particular. This paper provides an introduction and analysis of a hybrid supercomputer software infrastructure, which allows direct hardware access to the communication hardware for the necessary components while providing the standard elastic cloud infrastructure for other components.

    BibTex:

    @inproceedings{stoess10cloudnetwork,
      author = {Jonathan Appavoo and Volkmar Uhlig and Jan Stoess and Amos Waterland and Bryan Rosenburg and Robert Wisniewski and Dilma Da Silva and Eric Van Hensbergen and Udo Steinberg},
      title = {Providing a Cloud Network Infrastructure on a Supercomputer},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing},
      address = {Chicago, Illinois, USA},
      pages = "385--394",
      year = 2010,
      month = jun # "~21",
      affiliation = {Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany},
    }