NEX: Virtual Machine Monitor Level Single System Support in Xen

Author

Wang, Xiao ; Zhu, Mingfa ; Xiao, Limin ; Liu, Zhonglin ; Zhang, Xiao ; Li, Xiangshan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., BeiHang Univ., Beijing

Volume

3

fYear

2009

fDate

7-8 March 2009

Firstpage

1047

Lastpage

1051

Abstract

Numerous approaches have been investigated to achieve single system image in order to simplify the complexity of programming and administration of cluster. This paper focuses on virtualization approach and presents NEX, a system of cooperative hypervisors with single system image support. NEX could provide a virtual SMP machine over cluster nodes. Commodity operating systems that support SMP could run across nodes through NEX in parallel. The approach is based on prior research on virtualization and distributed shared memory. This paper describes the design and implementation of NEX and gives a preliminary evaluation.

Keywords

distributed shared memory systems; virtual machines; NEX; cluster nodes; commodity operating systems; cooperative hypervisors; distributed shared memory; programming complexity; single system image support; virtual SMP machine; virtual machine monitor level single system support; Computer architecture; Computer science; Educational technology; Hardware; Operating systems; Protocols; Sockets; Virtual machine monitors; Virtual machining; Yarn; distributed shared memory; distributed systems; virtual machine monitor; virtualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Education Technology and Computer Science, 2009. ETCS '09. First International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Wuhan, Hubei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3581-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETCS.2009.772

Filename

4959487