Performance Evaluation of Container-Based Virtualization for High Performance Computing Environments
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- 1 February 2013
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 233-240
- https://doi.org/10.1109/pdp.2013.41
Abstract
The use of virtualization technologies in high performance computing (HPC) environments has traditionally been avoided due to their inherent performance overhead. However, with the rise of container-based virtualization implementations, such as Linux VServer, OpenVZ and Linux Containers (LXC), it is possible to obtain a very low overhead leading to near-native performance. In this work, we conducted a number of experiments in order to perform an in-depth performance evaluation of container-based virtualization for HPC. We also evaluated the trade-off between performance and isolation in container-based virtualization systems and compared them with Xen, which is a representative of the traditional hypervisor-based virtualization systems used today.Keywords
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