Designing and Building Efficient HPC Cloud with Modern
Networking Technologies on Heterogeneous HPC Clusters
SessionDoctoral Showcase Session 1
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Event Type
Doctoral Showcase
Applications
Architectures
Clouds and Distributed Computing
Heterogeneous Systems
Networks
TimeTuesday, November 14th10:30am -
10:48am
Location210-212
DescriptionCloud Computing platforms through virtualization
technologies are widely used by many users due to their
high availability and flexibility. However, running HPC
applications on the cloud still suffers from fairly low
performance, more specifically, the degraded I/O
performance from the virtualized I/O devices. SR-IOV
solves the problem by delivering near-native I/O
performance. Nevertheless, SR-IOV lacks high-performance
virtualization support, such as locality-aware and
NUMA-aware support, and also prevents VM live migration.
Moreover, the critical HPC resources among VMs, (e.g,
SR-IOV enabled Virtual Functions), need to be managed
and isolated to efficiently support running multiple
concurrent MPI jobs on HPC clouds. Therefore, we propose
a framework to design and build the efficient HPC clouds
with modern networking technologies on heterogeneous HPC
clusters. Through this framework, the HPC cloud can
deliver near-native performance for MPI applications on
different types of virtualization environments, support
SR-IOV enabled VM migration, and provide the efficient
resource sharing.
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