Fast parallel algorithms for short-range molecular dynamics
Journal of Computational Physics
Exokernel: an operating system architecture for application-level resource management
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
VMPlants: Providing and Managing Virtual Machine Execution Environments for Grid Computing
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Diagnosing performance overheads in the xen virtual machine environment
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/USENIX international conference on Virtual execution environments
A case for high performance computing with virtual machines
Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Supercomputing
High performance VMM-bypass I/O in virtual machines
ATEC '06 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX '06 Annual Technical Conference
Proactive fault tolerance for HPC with Xen virtualization
Proceedings of the 21st annual international conference on Supercomputing
Characterization of network processing overheads in Xen
VTDC '06 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing
Vigilant: out-of-band detection of failures in virtual machines
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Virtual machine aware communication libraries for high performance computing
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
XenLoop: a transparent high performance inter-vm network loopback
HPDC '08 Proceedings of the 17th international symposium on High performance distributed computing
MemX: supporting large memory workloads in Xen virtual machines
VTDC '07 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Virtualization technology in distributed computing
Improving performance by embedding HPC applications in lightweight Xen domains
Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on System-level virtualization for high performance computing
Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on System-level virtualization for high performance computing
Paravirtualization for HPC systems
ISPA'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking
Optimizing virtual machines using hybrid virtualization
Journal of Systems and Software
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Obtaining high flexibility to performance-loss ratio is a key challenge of today's HPC virtual environment landscape. And while extensive research has been targeted at extracting more performance from virtual machines, the idea that whether novel virtual machine usage scenarios could lead to high flexibility Vs performance trade-off has received less attention. We, in this paper, take a step forward by studying and comparing the performance implications of running the Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator (LAMMPS) application on two virtual machine configurations. First configuration consists of two virtual machines per node with 1 application process per virtual machine. The second configuration consists of 1 virtual machine per node with 2 processes per virtual machine. Xen has been used as an hypervisor and standard Linux as a guest virtual machine. Our results show that the difference in overall performance impact on LAMMPS between the two virtual machine configurations described above is around 3%. We also study the difference in performance impact in terms of each configuration's individual metrics such as CPU, I/O, Memory, and interrupt/context switches.