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An efficient implementation of GPU virtualization in high performance clusters
| Research Area: | High Performance Clusters | Year: | 2010 |
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| Type of Publication: | In Proceedings | Keywords: | Application programming interfaces;Computer graphics equipment;Computer software portability;Middleware;Nanotechnology;Program processors; |
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| Volume: | 6043 LNCS | ||
| Book title: | Euro-Par 2009 – Parallel Processing Workshops | ||
| Pages: | 385 - 394 | ||
| Address: | Delft, Netherlands | ||
| ISSN: | 0302-9743 | ||
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Cluster nodes;Co-processors;Efficient implementation;Graphics processor;High performance cluster;High performance computing;High performance networks;Storage systems;Virtualizations;
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| Abstract: |
Current high performance clusters are equipped with high bandwidth/low latency networks, lots of processors and nodes, very fast storage systems, etc. However, due to economical and/or power related constraints, in general it is not feasible to provide an accelerating co-processor -such as a graphics processor (GPU)- per node. To overcome this, in this paper we present a GPU virtualization middleware, which makes remote CUDA-compatible GPUs available to all the cluster nodes. The software is implemented on top of the sockets application programming interface, ensuring portability over commodity networks, but it can also be easily adapted to high performance networks. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.
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