{Xen2MX:} Towards High-performance communication in the Cloud
| Type of publication: | Inproceedings |
| Citation: | nanos12vhpc |
| Booktitle: | 7th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '12) |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Month: | August |
| Address: | Rhodes Island, Greece |
| Abstract: | Efficient VM communication in Cloud computing infrastructures is an important aspect of deploying HPC applications in a cluster of VMs. In this paper we present Xen2MX, a high-performance messaging protocol, binary compatible with Myrinet/MX and wire compatible with MXoE. Its design is based on MX and its port over generic ethernet adapters, Open-MX. Xen2MX presents enhanced programming abstractions, combining the zero-copy characteristics of Open-MX with Xen's memory sharing techniques, in order to construct the most efficient data path for high-performance communication, achievable with software techniques. Experimental evaluation of our initial prototype implementation shows that round-trip latency can be reduced to as much as half compared to the generic case of using bridged ethernet adapters. |
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