Publication
Evaluating the performance and intrusiveness of virtual machines for desktop grid computing
| dc.contributor.author | Domingues, Patrício Rodrigues | |
| dc.contributor.author | Araújo, Filipe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Silva, Luís | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-08-14T14:46:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-08-14T14:46:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-05 | |
| dc.description | Comunicação apresentada no 3rd Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems, Rome, 2009. | pt |
| dc.description.abstract | We experimentally evaluate the performance overhead of the virtual environments VMware Player, QEMU, VirtualPC and VirtualBox on a dual-core machine. Firstly, we assess the performance of a Linux guest OS running on a virtual machine by separately benchmarking the CPU, file I/O and the network bandwidth. These values are compared to the performance achieved when applications are run on a Linux OS directly over the physical machine. Secondly, we measure the impact that a virtual machine running a volunteer @home project worker causes on a host OS. Results show that performance attainable on virtual machines depends simultaneously on the virtual machine software and on the application type, with CPU-bound applications much less impacted than IO-bound ones. Additionally, the performance impact on the host OS caused by a virtual machine using all the virtual CPU, ranges from 10% to 35%, depending on the virtual environment. | pt |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/119 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt |
| dc.subject | Volunteer computing | pt |
| dc.subject | Desktop grids | pt |
| dc.title | Evaluating the performance and intrusiveness of virtual machines for desktop grid computing | pt |
| dc.type | conference object | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Rome | pt |
| oaire.citation.title | 3rd Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems | pt |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | |
| rcaap.type | conferenceObject | pt |