Reference : HPC Performance and Energy-Efficiency of Xen, KVM and VMware Hypervisors

	Document type :	Scientific congresses, symposiums and conference proceedings : Paper published in a book
	Discipline(s) :	Engineering, computing & technology : Computer science
	Focus Areas :	Computational Sciences
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/12424

Title :	HPC Performance and Energy-Efficiency of Xen, KVM and VMware Hypervisors
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Varrette, Sébastien [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) >]
	Guzek, Mateusz [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
	Plugaru, Valentin [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > >]
	Besseron, Xavier [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Engineering Research Unit >]
	Bouvry, Pascal [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) >]
Publication date :	Oct-2013
Main document title :	Proc. of the 25th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2013)
Peer reviewed :	Yes
Audience :	International
Event name :	25th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2013)
Event date :	Oct 2013
Event place (city) :	Porto de Galinhas
Event country :	Brazil
Keywords :	[en] HPC ; Cloud ; Hypervisors
Abstract :	[en] With a growing concern on the considerable energy consumed by HPC platforms and data centers, research efforts are targeting green approaches with higher energy efficiency. In particular, virtualization is emerging as the prominent approach to mutualize the energy consumed by a single server running multiple VMs instances. Even today, it remains unclear whether the overhead induced by virtualization and the corresponding hypervisor middleware suits an environment as high-demanding as an HPC platform. In this paper, we analyze from an HPC perspective the three most widespread virtualization frameworks, namely Xen, KVM, and VMware ESXi and compare them with a baseline environment running in native mode. We performed our experiments on the Grid’5000 platform by measuring the results of the reference HPL benchmark. Power measures were also performed in parallel to quantify the potential energy efficiency of the virtualized environments. In general, our study offers novel incentives toward in-house HPC platforms running without any virtualized frameworks.
Research centres :	University of Luxembourg: High Performance Computing - ULHPC
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/12424

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