SnowFlock: rapid virtual machine cloning for cloud computing

By H. A. Lagar-Cavilla, J. Whitney, A. Scannell, Philip Patchin, Stephen M. Rumble, E. de Lara, Michael Brudno, Mahadev Satyanarayanan. European Conference on Computer Systems, 2009

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Federated Learning for Internet of Things: Recent Advances, Taxonomy, and Open Challenges (2020, methodology): “To run micro-services, there can be two ways, i.e., containers-based design [148]–[150] and virtual machine-based design [151], [152].”
Split/Merge: System Support for Elastic Execution in Virtual Middleboxes (2013, unknown): “Fundamental to achieving elasticity is the ability to create or destroy virtual machine (VM) instances, or replicas, and partitioning work between them [14, 34].”
RowClone: Fast and energy-efficient in-DRAM bulk data copy and initialization (2013, methodology): “Virtual machine (VM) cloning [33] is a technique to significantly reduce the startup cost of VMs in a cloud computing server.”
A Survey of Mobile Cloud Computing Application Models (2014, methodology): “Consequently, if the cloudlet is a cluster, then VM parallelism can be achieved by using multiple cores [108].”
My VM is Lighter (and Safer) than your Container (2017, methodology): “One avenue of optimization is to use memory de-duplication (as proposed by SnowFlock [24]) to reduce the overall memory footprint; unfortunately this requires non-negligible changes to the virtualization system.”