Active messages: a mechanism for integrated communication and computation
ISCA '92 Proceedings of the 19th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Separating data and control transfer in distributed operating systems
ASPLOS VI Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
U-Net: a user-level network interface for parallel and distributed computing
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
High performance messaging on workstations: Illinois fast messages (FM) for Myrinet
Supercomputing '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Disco: running commodity operating systems on scalable multiprocessors
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Self-paging in the Nemesis operating system
OSDI '99 Proceedings of the third symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Cellular disco: resource management using virtual clusters on shared-memory multiprocessors
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Performing remote operations efficiently on a local computer network
Communications of the ACM
MPI-The Complete Reference, Volume 1: The MPI Core
MPI-The Complete Reference, Volume 1: The MPI Core
Virtual-Memory-Mapped Network Interfaces
IEEE Micro
The Virtual Interface Architecture
IEEE Micro
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Virtualizing I/O Devices on VMware Workstation's Hosted Virtual Machine Monitor
Proceedings of the General Track: 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
High performance RDMA-based MPI implementation over InfiniBand
ICS '03 Proceedings of the 17th annual international conference on Supercomputing
Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Memory resource management in VMware ESX server
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
Scale and performance in the Denali isolation kernel
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
The design and implementation of Zap: a system for migrating computing environments
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
A case for high performance computing with virtual machines
Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Supercomputing
Live migration of virtual machines
NSDI'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 2
High performance VMM-bypass I/O in virtual machines
ATEC '06 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX '06 Annual Technical Conference
Netchannel: a VMM-level mechanism for continuous, transparentdevice access during VM migration
Proceedings of the fourth ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Virtual machine aware communication libraries for high performance computing
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Computing frontiers
Scalable I/O - a well-architected way to do scalable, secure and virtualized I/O
WIOV'08 Proceedings of the First conference on I/O virtualization
The turtles project: design and implementation of nested virtualization
OSDI'10 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
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Virtual machine (VM) technology is experiencing a resurgence due to various benefits including ease of management, security and resource consolidation. Live migration of virtual machines allows transparent movement of OS instances and hosted applications across physical machines. It is one of the most useful features of VM technology because it provides a powerful tool for effective administration of modern cluster environments. Migrating network resources is one of the key problems that need to be addressed in the VM migration process. Existing studies of VM migration have focused on traditional I/O interfaces such as Ethernet. However, modern high-speed interconnects with intelligent NICs pose significantly more challenges as they have additional features including hardware level reliable services and direct I/O accesses. In this paper we present Nomad, a design for migrating modern interconnects with the aforementioned features, focusing on cluster environments running VMs. We introduce a thin namespace virtualization layer to efficiently address location dependent resource handles and a handshake protocol which transparently maintains reliable service semantics during migration. We demonstrate our design by implementing a prototype based on the Xen virtual machine monitor and InfiniBand. Our performance analysis shows that Nomad can achieve efficient migration of network resources, even in environments with stringent communication performance requirements.