A General Purpose GPU transparent virtualization component

GVirtuS tries to fill the gap between in-house hosted computing clusters, equipped with GPGPUs devices, and pay-for-use high performance virtual clusters deployed  via public or private computing clouds. GVirtuS allows an instanced virtual machine to access GPGPUs in a transparent way, with an overhead  slightly greater than a real machine/GPGPU setup. GVirtuS is hypervisor independent,  even it currently virtualizes nVIDIA CUDA based GPUs, it is not limited to a specific brand technology. The performance of the components of GVirtuS is assessed through a suite of tests in different deployment scenarios, such as providing GPGPU power to cloud computing based HPC clusters and sharing remotely hosted GPGPUs among HPC nodes.

Common pages

• Installation
• Downloads

Posters, Pubblications and Presentations

• Raffaele Montella, Giuseppe Coviello, Giulio Giunta, Giuliano Laccetti, Florin Isaila and Javier Garcia Blas. A GPU Accelerated High Performance Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Grid Computing Based Virtual Environmental Laboratory
• Raffaele Montella, Giuseppe Coviello, Giulio Giunta, Giuliano Laccetti, Florin Isaila and Javier Garcia Blas. A GPGPU Transparent Virtualization Component for High Performance Computing Clouds
• Raffaele Montella, Giuseppe Coviello, Giulio Giunta, Giuliano Laccetti, Florin Isaila and Javier Garcia Blas. A general-purpose virtualization service for HPC on cloud computing: an application to GPUs

Used at…

GVirtus is actually used at :

ARCOS – Dpt. of Computer Science University of Madrid Carlos III
Nec Labs of America
OpenStack cloud software
Virtualization Group of Institute of Network Computing and Information Systems @ Peking University
International Institute of Information Technology – Bangalore

Contacts

• Department of Applied Science (http://dsa.uniparthenope.it)
• Applied High-Performance Scientific Computing Research Laboratory (http://dsa.uniparthenope.it/lmncp)
• University of Napoli Parthenope (http://www.uniparthenope.it)
• Mailinglist: http://osl.uniparthenope.it/mailman/listinfo/gvirtus

• Prof. Giulio Giunta (giulio.giunta@uniparthenope.it)
• Dr. Raffaele Montella (raffaele.montella@uniparthenope.it)
• Giuseppe Agrillo (giuseppe.agrillo@uniparthenope.it)
• Giuseppe Coviello (giuseppe.coviello@uniparthenope.it)