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Toward Full Specialization of the HPC Software Stack: Reconciling Application Containers and Lightweight Multi-kernels
| Content Provider | ACM Digital Library |
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| Author | Gerofi, Balazs Ishikawa, Yutaka Wisniewski, Robert W. Riesen, Rolf |
| Abstract | Application containers enable users to have greater control of their user-space execution environment by bundling application code with all the necessary libraries in a single software package. Lightweight multi-kernels leverage multi-core CPUs to run separate operating system (OS) kernels on different CPU cores, usually a lightweight kernel (LWK) and Linux. A multi-kernel's primary goal is attaining LWK scalability and performance in combination with support for the Linux APIs and environment. Both of these technologies are designed to address the increasing hardware complexity and the growing software diversity of High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. While containers enable specialization of user-space components, the LWK part of a multi-kernel system is also a form of software specialization, but targeting kernel space. This paper proposes a framework for combining application containers with multi-kernel operating systems thereby enabling specialization across the software stack. We provide an overview of the Linux container technologies and the challenges we faced to bring these two technologies together. Results from previous work show that multi-kernels can achieve better isolation than Linux. In this work, we deployed our framework on 1,024 Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing nodes. We highlight two important results obtained from running at a larger scale. First, we show that containers impose zero runtime overhead even at scale. Second, by taking advantage of our integrated framework, we demonstrate that users can transparently benefit from lightweight multi-kernels, attaining identical speedups to the native multi-kernel execution. |
| Starting Page | 1 |
| Ending Page | 8 |
| Page Count | 8 |
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| ISBN | 9781450350860 |
| DOI | 10.1145/3095770.3095777 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Publisher Date | 2017-06-27 |
| Publisher Place | New York |
| Access Restriction | Subscribed |
| Subject Keyword | Multi-kernels High performance computing Containers |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
