HPVZ: A High Performance Virtual Computing Environment for Super Computers

Authors:
Kai Lu;Wanqing Chi;Yongpeng Liu;Hongwei Tang
Affiliations:
School of Computer Science in National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, P.R. China 410073;School of Computer Science in National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, P.R. China 410073;School of Computer Science in National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, P.R. China 410073;School of Computer Science in National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, P.R. China 410073
Venue:
APPT '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Because of the features of isolation, security and consolidation, virtual machine technology is widely used in data center for server consolidation, which can support different operating systems or different isolated applications running on a single server. Besides this usage scenario on server systems, there are other scenarios that require more performance, isolation and security than consolidation. Such scenarios include HPC and Cluster for scientific computing. Because of the particularity of system architectures and usage requirements, existing virtual machine techniques cannot be used in HPC directly. Aiming to provide the features of architecture and requirements for HPC, we present a virtual machine technique for HPC system named High Performance Virtual Zone(HPVZ). HPVZ technique is the first complete solution for virtualization of HPC systems, and can provide users an isolated and secure running environment based on the structure of the HPC system. The evaluation shows that the HPVZ technique is the most cost-effective for HPC, compared to other virtual machine techniques.