Research in Computer Science Seminar (RICSS) for Friday, November 14, 2008

[Gregory M. Kapfhammer]

Hello Everyone,

You are cordially invited to attend the upcoming session of the
Research in Computer Science Seminar (RICSS). Please pass this
invitation on to other students, staff, and faculty members that
would be interested in attending the upcoming talk.

Date: Friday, November 14, 2008
Location: Campus Center Room 206
Time: 12:15 - 1:15

Presenter:

James Devine
Department of Computer Science
Allegheny College

Title:

The Real Cost of Operating System Virtualization

Abstract:

Virtualization has become a new buzz word in the computing
community. It offers many benefits over the traditional one
server per machine architecture. Virtualization takes advantage
of the fact that most servers are only using a very small
percentage of their resources. Through virtualization,
underutilized physical resources are virtualized and then shared
between several guest operating systems, offering many benefits.

However, the benefits of virtualization do come at a price since
there is an inherent performance cost of virtualizing a
server. To determine the impact this process has on virtual
machine performance an empirical study was conducted on the MNJE
(MITRE New Jersey Eatontown) virtual cluster. This talk provides
an analysis of the results and then makes recommendations about
virtualization performance and best practices.

All are welcome to attend!

More details about RICSS are available at:

http://www.cs.allegheny.edu/~gkapfham/research/RICSS/

Kind Regards,

greg

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Dr. Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Allegheny College
Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA
Office: 814-332-2880
gkapfham(at)allegheny(dot)edu
http://www.cs.allegheny.edu/~gkapfham/