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Performance Evaluation of OpenMP Applications on Virtualized Multicore Machines

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OpenMP in the Petascale Era (IWOMP 2011)

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Virtualization technology has been applied to a variety of areas including server consolidation, High Performance Computing, as well as Grid and Cloud computing. Due to the fact that applications do not run directly on the hardware of a host machine, virtualization generally causes a performance loss for both sequential and parallel applications.

This paper studies the performance issues of the OpenMP execution on virtualized multicore systems. The goal of this study is to quantify the performance deficit of virtualization of OpenMP applications and further to detect the reason of the performance loss. The results of the investigation are expected to guide the optimization of virtualization technologies as well as the applications.

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  1. Steinbuch Center for Computing, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

    Jie Tao & Holger Marten

  2. Department of Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), München, Germany

    Karl Fürlinger

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  2. Dept. of Computer Sci., Univ. of Illinois, 61801, Urbana, Illinois, USA

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  3. Argonne National Laboratory, TCS, Bldg 240, Rm 1125, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, 60439, Argonne, IL, USA

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Tao, J., Fürlinger, K., Marten, H. (2011). Performance Evaluation of OpenMP Applications on Virtualized Multicore Machines. In: Chapman, B.M., Gropp, W.D., Kumaran, K., Müller, M.S. (eds) OpenMP in the Petascale Era. IWOMP 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6665. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21487-5_11

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