Performance Evaluation of Container-based Virtualization for High Performance Computing Environments

Autor: Rémy Dernat, Carlos Alberto Marín Arango, John Sanabria
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
FOS: Computer and information sciences
Operating Systems (cs.OS)
Computer science
Pharmaceutical Science
02 engineering and technology
computer.software_genre
lcsh:Technology
03 medical and health sciences
Single node
Computer Science - Operating Systems
Container-based virtualization
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
Bare metal
Pharmacology (medical)
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
Docker
Computer Science - Performance
Singularity
lcsh:T
020206 networking & telecommunications
Supercomputer
Virtualization
Performance (cs.PF)
Linux containers
Complementary and alternative medicine
Computer Science - Distributed
Parallel
and Cluster Computing
lcsh:TA1-2040
Container (abstract data type)
Operating system
High performance computing
Distributed
Parallel
and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
lcsh:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
computer
Zdroj: Revista UIS Ingenierías, Vol 18, Iss 4 (2019)
Popis: Virtualization technologies have evolved along with the development of computational environments since virtualization offered needed features at that time such as isolation, accountability, resource allocation, resource fair sharing and so on. Novel processor technologies bring to commodity computers the possibility to emulate diverse environments where a wide range of computational scenarios can be run. Along with processors evolution, system developers have created different virtualization mechanisms where each new development enhanced the performance of previous virtualized environments. Recently, operating system-based virtualization technologies captured the attention of communities abroad (from industry to academy and research) because their important improvements on performance area. In this paper, the features of three container-based operating systems virtualization tools (LXC, Docker and Singularity) are presented. LXC, Docker, Singularity and bare metal are put under test through a customized single node HPL-Benchmark and a MPI-based application for the multi node testbed. Also the disk I/O performance, Memory (RAM) performance, Network bandwidth and GPU performance are tested for the COS technologies vs bare metal. Preliminary results and conclusions around them are presented and discussed.
Keywords: Container-based virtualization; Linux containers; Singularity-Containers; Docker; High performance computing
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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