Title: Performance Evaluation of Container-based Virtualization for High Performance Computing Environments,
Abstract: Virtualization technologies have evolved along with the development of
computational environments since virtualization offered needed features at that
time such as isolation, accountability, resource allocation, resource fair
sharing and so on. Novel processor technologies bring to commodity computers
the possibility to emulate diverse environments where a wide range of
computational scenarios can be run. Along with processors evolution, system
developers have created different virtualization mechanisms where each new
development enhanced the performance of previous virtualized environments.
Recently, operating system-based virtualization technologies captured the
attention of communities abroad (from industry to academy and research) because
their important improvements on performance area.
In this paper, the features of three container-based operating systems
virtualization tools (LXC, Docker and Singularity) are presented. LXC, Docker,
Singularity and bare metal are put under test through a customized single node
HPL-Benchmark and a MPI-based application for the multi node testbed. Also the
disk I/O performance, Memory (RAM) performance, Network bandwidth and GPU
performance are tested for the COS technologies vs bare metal. Preliminary
results and conclusions around them are presented and discussed.