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

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

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},
}