Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen (awarded best paper)

By Aravind Menon, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel. USENIX ATC, General Track, 2006

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Scheduling I/O in virtual machine monitors (2008, background): “There has also been recent work on improving other aspects of virtualized I/O performance [5, 13, 15, 14, 16, 17, 20].”
Proactive fault tolerance for HPC with Xen virtualization (2007, background): “To make virtualization competitive for message passing environments, OS bypassing is required for the networking layer [22, 21].”
The Eucalyptus Open-Source Cloud-Computing System (2009, methodology): “Finally, we provide evidence that EUCALYPTUS enables users familiar with existing Grid and HPC systems to explore new cloud computing functionality while maintaining access to existing, familiar application development software and Grid middle-ware.”
High performance network virtualization with SR-IOV (2010, methodology): “Page remapping and batch packets transferring could be used to further improve performance [10].”