Performance evaluation of the XDEM framework on the openstack cloud computing middleware

X. Besseron; V. Plugaru; A. H. Mahmoudi; S. Varrette; B. Peters; P. Bouvry

doi:10.4203/ccp.107.20

Performance evaluation of the XDEM framework on the openstack cloud computing middleware

X. Besseron, V. Plugaru, A. H. Mahmoudi, S. Varrette, B. Peters, P. Bouvry

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Abstract

As Cloud Computing services become ever more prominent, it appears necessary to assess the efficiency of these solutions. This paper presents a performance evaluation of the OpenStack Could Computing middleware using our XDEM application simulating the pyrolysis of biomass as a benchmark. A systematic study is presented, based on a fully automated benchmarking framework to evaluate three different configurations: native (i.e. no virtualization), Open- Stack with KVM and XEN hypervisors. The authors' approach features the following advantages: real user application, the fair comparison using the same hardware, the large scale distributed execution, while being fully automated and reproducible. Experiments have been run on two different clusters, using up to 432 cores. Results show a moderate overhead for sequential execution and a significant penalty for distributed execution under the Cloud middleware. The overhead on multiple nodes is between 10% and 30% for OpenStack/KVM and 30% and 60% for OpenStack/XEN.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the fourth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering, PARENG 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4203/ccp.107.20
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	4th International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering, PARENG 2015 - Dubrovnik, Croatia Duration: 24 Mar 2015 → 27 Mar 2015 Conference number: 14

Publication series

Name	Civil-Comp Proceedings
Publisher	Civil-Comp Press
Volume	107
ISSN (Print)	1759-3433

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Conference	4th International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering, PARENG 2015
Abbreviated title	PARENG 2015
Country/Territory	Croatia
City	Dubrovnik
Period	24/03/15 → 27/03/15

Keywords

Cloud computing
Discrete element method
High performance computing
KVM
OpenStack
XEN

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Besseron, X., Plugaru, V., Mahmoudi, A. H., Varrette, S., Peters, B., & Bouvry, P. (2015). Performance evaluation of the XDEM framework on the openstack cloud computing middleware. In Proceedings of the fourth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering, PARENG 2015 (Civil-Comp Proceedings; Vol. 107). https://doi.org/10.4203/ccp.107.20

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Besseron, X, Plugaru, V, Mahmoudi, AH, Varrette, S, Peters, B & Bouvry, P 2015, Performance evaluation of the XDEM framework on the openstack cloud computing middleware. in Proceedings of the fourth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering, PARENG 2015. Civil-Comp Proceedings, vol. 107, 4th International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering, PARENG 2015, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24/03/15. https://doi.org/10.4203/ccp.107.20

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Proceedings of the fourth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering, PARENG 2015. 2015. (Civil-Comp Proceedings; Vol. 107).

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