Abstract

Modified variants of Linux are likely to be the underlying operating systems for future exascale platforms. Despite the many advantages of this approach, a subset of applications exist in which a lightweight kernel (LWK) based OS is needed and/or preferred. We contend that virtualization is capable of supporting LWKs as virtual machines (VMs) running at scale on top of a Linux environment. Furthermore, we claim that a properly designed virtual machine monitor (VMM) can provide an isolated and independent environment that avoids the overheads of the Linux host OS. To validate the feasibility of this approach we demonstrate that given a Linux host OS, benchmarks running in a virtualized LWK environment are capable of outperforming the same benchmarks executed directly on the Linux host.

Metadata

publication

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Runtime and Operating …, 2012

year

2012

publication date

2012/6/29

authors

Brian Kocoloski, John Lange

link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2318916.2318926

resource_link

http://www.v3vee.org/papers/ross12.pdf

book

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers

pages

1-8