NDLI: Automated Instantiation of Heterogeneous Fast Flow CPU/GPU Parallel Pattern Applications in Clouds

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Boob, S. Gonzalez-Velez, H. Popescu, A.M.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Cloud Competency Centre, Nat. Coll. of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland (Boob, S.; Gonzalez-Velez, H.; Popescu, A.M.)
Abstract	Parallel scientific workloads typically entail highly-customised software environments, involving complex data structures, specialised systems software, and even distinct hardware, where virtualisation is not necessarily supported by third-party providers. Considering the expansion of cloud computing in different domains and the development of different proprietary (e.g. Amazon Web Services, Azure) and open source cloud platforms (Eucalyptus, OpenStack, OpenNebula), users should arguably be able to automatically and seamlessly migrate their parallel workloads across cloud platforms using standardised virtual machines. However, even if it is easier to migrate the workload between nodes when the nodes have a similar configuration on the same platform, the transition between different platforms typically raises different issues such as vendor lock-in, portability, and interoperability. In this paper, we describe our work to automatically deploy a complex parallel software stack on heterogeneous hybrid cloud platforms. We have elastically deployed FastFlow - a C/C++ pattern-based programming framework for multi-/many-core and distributed platforms -- using virtual machines on both CPU and GPU-based architectures between heterogeneous virtualised platforms. Our approach relies on the standard Open Virtualization Format (OVF) in order to achieve a universal description of virtual appliances. Such a description is not only useful for elastically migrating and deploying, but also to determine the hardware/system software configuration needed switching to any new (cloud) image format. We have successfully evaluated our work using virtual machines based on VirtualBox and Amazon Web Services on local cluster and public cloud providers.
Sponsorship	IBM
Starting Page	162
Ending Page	169
File Size	517064
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479927296
ISSN	10666192
DOI	10.1109/PDP.2014.88
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-02-12
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Cloud computing Virtual machining Automation Servers Graphics processing units Monitoring Hardware Cloud Computing Algorithmic Skeletons Parallel Patterns Parallel Programming FastFlow Virtualization Platform Interoperability
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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