Virtualization technology is the underlying element of cloud computing. Traditionally, cloud
computing has employed virtual machines to distribute available resources and provide …

The benefits of virtualization are typically considered to be server consolidation,(leading to
the reduction of power and cooling costs) increased availability, isolation, ease of operating …

Failure is an increasingly important issue in high performance computing and cloud
systems. As large-scale systems continue to grow in scale and complexity, mitigating the …

Container-based virtualization technologies such as LXC or Docker have gained a lot of
interest recently, especially in the HPC context where they could help to address a number …

Cloud computing is a widespread and commonly used computing paradigm. Cloud relied on
virtualization technology to be a scalable and efficient distributed system. In traditional cloud …

Despite of Cloud infrastructures can be used as High Performance Computing (HPC)
platforms, many issues from virtualization overhead had kept them unrelated. However, with …

This paper compares the total cost of ownership of a physical cluster with the cost of a virtual
cloud-based cluster. For that purpose, cost models for both a physical cluster and a cluster …

In this paper the authors evaluate the CPU Consumption, Memory Utilization and Transfer
Time between 5 Hypervisors XEN-PV, XEN-HVM, OpenVZ, KVM-FV and KVM-PV by using …

Process migration is an important feature in modern computing centers as it allows for a
more efficient use and maintenance of hardware. Especially in virtualized infrastructures it is …

The consolidation of services is a widely accepted technique for IaaS Cloud providers to
reducing energy consumption and improving the utilization of their resources. This …