Discrete element method; High Performance Computing; Cloud Computing; OpenStack; XEN; KVM
Abstract :
[en] As Cloud Computing services become ever more prominent, it appears necessary to assess the efficiency of these solutions. This paper presents a performance evaluation of the OpenStack Cloud Computing middleware using our XDEM application simulating the pyrolysis of biomass as a benchmark.
We propose a systematic study based on a fully automated benchmarking framework to evaluate 3 different configurations: Native (i.e. no virtualization), OpenStack with KVM and XEN hypervisors. Our approach features the following advantages:
real user application, the fair comparison using the same hardware, the large scale distributed execution, while fully automated and reproducible.
Experiments has been run on two different clusters, using up to 432 cores. Results show a moderate overhead for sequential execution and a significant penalty for distributed execution under the Cloud middleware. The overhead on multiple nodes is between 10% and 30% for OpenStack/KVM and 30% and 60% for OpenStack/XEN.
Research center :
ULHPC - University of Luxembourg: High Performance Computing LuXDEM - University of Luxembourg: Luxembourg XDEM Research Centre
Disciplines :
Computer science
Author, co-author :
BESSERON, Xavier ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Engineering Research Unit
PLUGARU, Valentin ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC)
MAHMOUDI, Amir Houshang ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Engineering Research Unit
VARRETTE, Sébastien ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC)
PETERS, Bernhard ; 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)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Performance Evaluation of the XDEM framework on the OpenStack Cloud Computing Middleware
Publication date :
February 2015
Event name :
The Fourth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering
Event place :
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Event date :
March 2015
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering
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