Publications related to Comparison of platform virtualization software

CloudProphet: A Machine Learning-Based Performance Prediction for Public Clouds

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Luis Maria Costero Valero, Darong Huang, Ali Pahlevan

Computing servers have played a key role in developing and processing emerging compute-intensive applications in recent years. Consolidating multiple virtual machines (VMs) inside one server to run various applications introduces severe competence for limi ...

2024

VIDEZZO: Dependency-aware Virtual Device Fuzzing

Mathias Josef Payer, Flavio Toffalini, Qiang Liu

A virtual machine interacts with its host environment through virtual devices, driven by virtual device messages, e.g., I/O operations. By issuing crafted messages, an adversary can exploit a vulnerability in a virtual device to escape the virtual machine, ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2023

A system design for elastically scaling transaction processing engines in virtualized servers

Anastasia Ailamaki, Raja Appuswamy, Angelos Christos Anadiotis, Hillel Avni

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) deployments are migrating from on-premise to cloud settings in order to exploit the elasticity of cloud infrastructure which allows them to adapt to workload variations. However, cloud adaptation comes at the cost of re ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Energy Proportionality in Near-Threshold Computing Servers and Cloud Data Centers: Consolidating or Not?

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Luca Benini, Ali Pahlevan, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi

Cloud Computing aims to efficiently tackle the increasing demand of computing resources, and its popularity has led to a dramatic increase in the number of computing servers and data centers worldwide. However, as effect of post-Dennard scaling, computing ...

2018

An Analytical Model of Hardware Transactional Memory

Willy Zwaenepoel, Paolo Romano, Diego Didona

This paper investigates the problem of deriving a white box performance model of Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) systems. The proposed model targets TSX, a popular implementation of HTM integrated in Intel processors starting with the Haswell family in ...

2017

Performance Estimation Based Multicriteria Partitioning Approach for Dynamic Dataflow Programs

Marco Mattavelli, Nicolas Zufferey, Malgorzata Maria Michalska

The problem of partitioning a dataflow program onto a target architecture is a difficult challenge for any application design. In general, since the problem is NP-complete, it consists of looking for high quality solutions in terms of maximizing the achiev ...

Hindawi Limited2016

Factory planning system considering energy-efficient process under cloud manufacturing

Ian Anthony Stroud, Jumyung Um, Yong Chan Choi

Cloud computing sets to make a change in business between enterprises over the Internet based on services providing dynamically reconfigurable and virtualized networks. It is difficult for an aircraft manufacturer to consider the performance and status of ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture with the Original VMware Workstation

Edouard Bugnion

This article describes the historical context, technical challenges, and main implementation techniques used by VMware Workstation to bring virtualization to the x86 architecture in 1999. Although virtual machine monitors (VMMs) had been around for decades ...

Association for Computing Machinery2012

Full System Simulation of Many-Core Heterogeneous SoCs using GPU and QEMU Semihosting

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Martino Ruggiero, Shivani Raghav

Modern system-on-chips are evolving towards complex and heterogeneous platforms with general-purpose processors coupled with massively parallel manycore accelerator fabrics (e.g. embedded GPUs). Platform developers are looking for efficient full-system sim ...

2012

Why Nothing Matters: The Impact of Zeroing

Jennifer Bedke Sartor, Xi Yang

Memory safety defends against inadvertent and malicious misuse of memory that may compromise program correctness and security. A critical element of memory safety is zero initialization. The direct cost of zero initialization is surprisingly high: up to 12 ...

2011

GPGPU-Accelerated Parallel and Fast Simulation of Thousand-core Platforms

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Martino Ruggiero, Shivani Raghav

The multicore revolution and the ever-increasing complexity of computing systems is dramatically changing system design, analysis and programming of computing platforms. Future architectures will feature hundreds to thousands of simple processors and on-ch ...

IEEE/ACM Press2011

Scalable instruction set simulator for thousand-core architectures running on GPGPUs

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Martino Ruggiero, Shivani Raghav

Simulators are still the primary tools for development and performance evaluation of applications running on massively parallel architectures. However, current virtual platforms are not able to tackle the complexity issues introduced by 1000-core future sc ...

IEEE Press2010

Performance and Energy Trade-offs Analysis of L2 on-Chip Cache Architectures for Embedded MPSoCs

Martino Ruggiero, Mohamed Mostafa Sabry Aly, Pablo Garcia del Valle

On-chip memory organization is one of the most important aspects that can influence the overall system behavior in multi-processor systems. Following the trend set by high-performance processors, high-end embedded cores are moving from single-level on chip ...

2010

Performance Profiling in a Virtualized Environment

Willy Zwaenepoel, Jiaqing Du

Virtualization is a key enabling technology for cloud computing. Many applications deployed in a cloud run in virtual machines. However, profilers based on CPU performance counters do not work well in a virtualized environment. In this paper, we explore th ...

2010

TwinDrivers: Semi-Automatic Derivation of Fast and Safe Hypervisor Network Drivers from Guest OS Drivers

Willy Zwaenepoel, Aravind Menon, Simon Schubert

In a virtualized environment, device drivers are often run inside a virtual machine (VM) rather than in the hypervisor. Doing so protects the hypervisor from bugs in the driver, and also allows the reuse of the device driver and its support infrastructure ...

ACM2009

Optimizing network performance in virtual machines

Aravind Menon

In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in the adoption of virtual machine technology in data centers and cluster environments. This trend towards server virtualization is driven by two main factors: the savings in hardware cost that can be achieved ...

EPFL2009

Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen

Willy Zwaenepoel, Aravind Menon

BEST PAPER AWARDIn this paper, we propose and evaluate three techniques for optimizing network performance in the Xen virtualized environment. Our techniques retain the basic Xen architecture of locating device dri ...

2006

Diagnosing Performance Overheads in the Xen Virtual Machine Environment

Willy Zwaenepoel, Aravind Menon

Virtual Machine (VM) environments (e.g., VMware and Xen) are experiencing a resurgence of interest for diverse uses including server consolidation and shared hosting. An application's performance in a virtual machine environ- ment can differ markedly from ...

2005