Xen and the art of virtualization
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ATEC '06 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX '06 Annual Technical Conference
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HotCloud'10 Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX conference on Hot topics in cloud computing
MyriXen: message passing in Xen virtual machines over Myrinet and Ethernet
Euro-Par'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Parallel processing
High-performance message-passing over generic Ethernet hardware with Open-MX
Parallel Computing
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Euro-Par 2010 Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Parallel processing
The Common Communication Interface (CCI)
HOTI '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 19th Annual Symposium on High Performance Interconnects
A smart HPC interconnect for clusters of virtual machines
Euro-Par'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Parallel Processing - Volume 2
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Efficient VM communication in Cloud computing infrastructures is an important aspect of HPC application deployment in clusters of VMs. In this paper we present Xen2MX, a high-performance messaging protocol, binary compatible with Myrinet/MX and wire compatible with MXoE. Its design is based on MX and its port over generic Ethernet adapters, Open-MX. Xen2MX combines the zero-copy characteristics of Open-MX with Xen's memory sharing techniques, in order to construct the most efficient data path for high-performance communication, achievable with software techniques. Using Xen2MX, we are able to reduce the round-trip latency to 14μs, compared to directly attached devices (13μs) and to a software bridge setup (44μs).