Tuning tips to run low-latency applications in virtual machines
First off, a little bit about myself. I’m Bhavesh Davda, presently a member of the Office of the CTO here at VMware, looking at areas like low latency applications, high rate packet processing, high...
View ArticleSummer of vRDMA
Last summer, Josh Simons wrote a blog entry titled Summer of RDMA, summarizing work done by our intern, Adit Ranadive, who looked at RDMA performance on ESXi using VM DirectPath I/O with QDR InfiniBand...
View ArticleParavirtual RDMA for Low Latency and Flexibility
The Office of the CTO has been exploring how to best enable application access to RDMA for those applications requiring the ultimate in high bandwidth, low-latency communication, which includes many...
View ArticleVirtualized High Performance Computing (HPC) at VMworld 2013
It’s been a busy few months on the HPC front here at VMware. I’ve been spending increasing amounts of time answering questions from our field people and talking with customers about the benefits of...
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High Performance Computing (HPC) Update
Our HPC effort at VMware has been very active in recent months, and we have lots of information to share– including new performance results. Rather than cramming all of that content into a single mega...
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Running HPC Applications on vSphere using InfiniBand RDMA
Looking back on 2014, this was the year in which we made significant strides in assessing and addressing High Performance Computing (HPC) performance on vSphere. We’ve shown that throughput or...
View ArticlePerformance of RDMA and HPC Applications in VMs using FDR InfiniBand on...
Customers often ask whether InfiniBand (IB) can be used with vSphere. The short answer is, yes. VM Direct Path I/O (passthrough) allows InfiniBand cards to be made directly visible within a virtual...
View ArticleHigh Performance Computing with Altitude: SC’16 Begins Tomorrow!
As readers may know, VMware has had a presence in the EMC booth for the last several years at Supercomputing, the HPC community’s largest annual ACM/IEEE conference and exhibition. With the fusion of...
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