“Although the use of GPUs has generalized nowadays, including GPUs in current HPC clusters presents several drawbacks mainly related with increased costs. In this talk we present how the use of remote GPU virtualization may overcome these drawbacks while noticeably increasing the overall cluster throughput. The talk presents real throughput measurements by making use of the rCUDA remote GPU virtualization middleware.”
Search Results for: virtualization
Job of the Week: HPC Virtualization Specialist at Stanford University
September 5, 2015 by
Stanford University is seeking an HPC Virtualization Specialist in our Job of the Week.
Pros and Cons of HPC Virtualization
December 4, 2014 by
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, X-ISS President Deepak Khosla argues that while enterprise computing makes extensive use of virtualization, it could make a big difference in HPC as well if it is introduced properly.
An HPC Virtualization Update from VMware
November 3, 2014 by
Over at the VMware CTO Office, Josh Simons writes that HPC efforts are stepping at the company with new staffing and some exciting InfiniBand performance improvements that could help make virtualization a widespread technology for high performance computing.
Virtualization in the Cloud
September 24, 2014 by
One of the best ways to realize the full performance benefits of virtualization is to make it available through a private cloud. The VMware vCloud Suite realizes operational efficiency through policy-driven operations. By providing simplified operations management, the cloud solution drives greater resource utilization and staff productivity.
HPC Virtualization and Workload Agility
September 8, 2014 by
Virtualization allows workloads to be compartmentalized in their own VM in order to take full advantage of the underlying parallelism of today’s multicore, heterogeneous HPC systems without compromising security. This approach is particularly beneficial for organizations centralizing multiple groups on to a shared cluster or for teams with security issues – for example, a life sciences environment where access to genomic data needs to be restricted to specific researchers.
HPC Virtualization and Secure Private Cloud
September 2, 2014 by
This article is the third in an editorial series that explores the benefits the HPC community can achieve by adopting HPC virtualization and secure private cloud technologies. Virtualization has been proven to be a viable architectural approach that addresses the many challenges mentioned in last week’s article. This week and next we look at the benefits of creating a virtualized infrastructure.
Challenges on the Road to HPC Virtualization
August 25, 2014 by
Although both the enterprise and HPC can benefit from virtualization, the two have had dissimilar requirements. This article is the second in an editorial series that explores the benefits the HPC community can achieve by adopting HPC virtualization and cloud technologies.
insideHPC Guide to Virtualization, Cloud and HPC
August 18, 2014 by
Over the past several years, virtualization has made major inroads into enterprise IT infrastructures. And now it is moving into the realm of high performance computing (HPC), especially for such compute intensive applications as electronic design automation (EDA), life sciences, financial services and digital media entertainment. This article is the first in a series that explores the benefits the HPC community can achieve by adopting proven virtualization and cloud technologies.
Virtualization Breaks HPC Efficiency Barrier
July 17, 2014 by
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory migrated independent grids into a fully virtualized environment that reduced idle computing cycles while a providing a big jump in throughput when pushing millions of calculations through the system.
