VT-ASOS: Holistic system software customization for many cores

Author

Nikolopoulos, Dimitrios S. ; Back, Godmar ; Tripathi, Jyotirmaya ; Curtis-Maury, Matthew

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

VT-ASOS is a framework for holistic and continuous customization of system software on HPC systems. The framework leverages paravirtualization technology. VT-ASOS extends the Xen hypervisor with interfaces, mechanisms, and policies for supporting application-specific resource management schemes on many-core systems, while retaining the advantages of virtualization, including protection, performance isolation, and fault tolerance. We outline the VT-ASOS framework and present results from a preliminary prototype, which enables static customization of scheduler parameters and runtime adaptation of parallel virtual machines.

Keywords

parallel machines; virtual machines; Xen hypervisor; application-specific resource management schemes; continuous customization; fault tolerance; holistic system software customization; many-core systems; parallel virtual machines; paravirtualization technology; performance isolation; runtime adaptation; scheduler parameters; static customization; Application virtualization; Fault tolerant systems; Isolation technology; Protection; Resource management; Resource virtualization; Runtime; System software; Virtual machine monitors; Virtual prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing, 2008. IPDPS 2008. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Miami, FL

ISSN

1530-2075

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1693-6

Electronic_ISBN

1530-2075

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536390

Filename

4536390