From fca59bea770346cf1c1f9b0e00cb48a61b44a8f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Harald Welte Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 21:00:20 +0100 Subject: import of old now defunct presentation slides svn repo --- .../OLS2005/vasilevsky/vasilevsky-abstract.tex | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2005/flow-accounting-ols2005/OLS2005/vasilevsky/vasilevsky-abstract.tex (limited to '2005/flow-accounting-ols2005/OLS2005/vasilevsky/vasilevsky-abstract.tex') diff --git a/2005/flow-accounting-ols2005/OLS2005/vasilevsky/vasilevsky-abstract.tex b/2005/flow-accounting-ols2005/OLS2005/vasilevsky/vasilevsky-abstract.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7e8fe69 --- /dev/null +++ b/2005/flow-accounting-ols2005/OLS2005/vasilevsky/vasilevsky-abstract.tex @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ + +% Registration Linux Virtualization on Virtual Iron VFe +% [2]Register/Submit Proposal Alex Vasilevsky (alex@virtualiron.com) + +After many years of research and development, +the concept of cluster-based computing +seamlessly integrating a set of computing +resources into a cohesive whole has gone +largely unfulfilled. The barrier to adoption +of cluster-based computing has been that +applications must be made cluster-aware. The +best technology that is currently available is +a set of middleware tools, such as the Globus +toolkit, which is used to rework applications +to run on a cluster. Because it is difficult +to make applications run in parallel on a +cluster, only a handful of highly specialized +applications sometimes referred to as +``embarrassingly parallel'' applications, have +been made cluster-aware. Of the very few +commercial cluster-aware applications, the +best known is Oracle Database Real Application +Clustering. Virtual Iron(R) Software has +solved these problems by creating Virtual Iron +VFe, which allows any applications to +transparently run on a tightly-coupled +cluster of computers without any +modifications. This software elegantly +abstracts the underlying cluster of servers +with a Distributed Virtual Machine Monitor. +Like many other Virtual Machines Monitors, +this software layer takes complete control of +the underlying hardware and creates virtual +machines, each of which behaves like a +complete physical machine running its own +operating system in full isolation. In +contrast to other existing Virtual Machines +Monitors, the Distributed Virtual Machine +Monitor creates a virtual multi-processor on a +collection of tightly coupled servers. The +system gives guest operating systems the +illusion that it is running on a single +multi-processor machine with \textit{N} CPUs on top +of \textit{M} physical servers interconnected by +networks. In this paper we'll describe Linux +Virtualization on Virtual Iron VFe, the +virtualization capabilities of the Virtual +Iron(R) Distributed VMM technology, as well as +the changed made to the Linux kernel to take +advantage of this new distributed +virtualization technology. + + -- cgit v1.2.3