Title :
Performance of a Virtual Cluster in a General-Purpose Teaching Laboratory
Author :
Johnson, Eric ; Garrity, Patrick ; Yates, Timothy ; Brown, Richard A.
Author_Institution :
St. Olaf Coll., Northfield, MN, USA
Abstract :
Through virtualization, a Beowulf cluster running on the physical hardware and network of a general-purpose teaching laboratory can provide significant computational power without compromising-in fact increasing-the educational value of the lab machines. After describing our implementation of such a virtual cluster in a teaching lab, we analyze its performance by comparing benchmark results to those of an equivalent dedicated (native) cluster and investigate expedient improvements to our design.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; laboratories; teaching; virtual reality; virtualisation; Beowulf cluster; educational value; general-purpose teaching laboratory; lab machines; physical hardware; virtual cluster; virtualization; Benchmark testing; Educational institutions; Hardware; Laboratories; Operating systems; Virtual machining; HPCC; KVM; benchmark; cluster; education; performance; virtualization;
Conference_Titel :
Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1355-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4516-5
DOI :
10.1109/CLUSTER.2011.76
