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The Effect of Virtualization on OS Interference

This document evaluates the impact of virtualization technology on the degree of operating system interference experienced by high-performance computing applications. We overview the IBM Research Hypervisor and describe an infrastructure enabling the use of logical partitions (LPARs) for the execution of stand-alone applications along side traditional operating systems. We use a simple micro-benchmark to compare the operating system interference in this environment to that of a traditional Linux system. We then discuss extensions of virtualization technology which can be used to manage this OS interference and improve the efficiency of parallel applications.

Eric Van Hensbergen

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