Technical gazette, Vol. 22 No. 6, 2015.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17559/TV-20140819115232
MPI applications' performances in native vs. virtualized environments using InfiniBand IPoIB virtualization and live migration
Marko Kobal
; Arctur d.o.o., Industrijska cesta 5, 5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Zlatan Car
orcid.org/0000-0003-2817-9252
; Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Vukovarska 58, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
Milan Ojsteršek
; Faculty of electrical engineering and computer science, University of Maribor, Smetanova ulica 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Abstract
Over recent years we have seen a constant evolution of High-Performance Computing moving into commodity servers cluster types of systems. At the same time we have seen Cloud Computing being a proven, stable and reliable IT paradigm, utilising virtualized clusters of commodity servers as key components. This paper presents a face-to-face native-to-virtual HPC MPI application performance analysis on a range of general-use HPC applications by virtualizing InfiniBand via IPoIB at the guest virtual machine level on VMware ESXi as well as KVM hypervisor with production ready live migration support. Applications running on various small and medium HPC clusters are targeted to address users, considering full IT infrastructure virtualization by merging general purpose with HPC IT infrastructure. Live migration is a key component within a virtualized environment as it enables dynamic virtual IT infrastructure, therefore live migration performance impact is evaluated through a pluggable multi-platform architecture on a proactive fault-tolerance use case.
Keywords
cloud computing; HPC; InfiniBand; IPoIB; live migration; MPI application; performance analysis; virtualization
Hrčak ID:
149380
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Publication date:
14.12.2015.
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