[DLC] Fwd: [All-grads] Seminar Announcement-Wednesday, June 20th at 3 pm Room 1000 SEO

[Samir Faci]

though it's a UIC event, I highly doubt they would card at the door
(never did before).  If anyone is interested in Xen virtualization, an
fyi.

--
Samir

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 Dear All,

 Please see below a seminar announcement for tomorrow, Wednesday, June
20th at 3 pm in Room 1000 SEO
 hosted by Professor Venkat.

 All are welcome to attend.

 Thanks,
 Imelda

 University of Illinois at Chicago
 Department of Computer Science


Seminar Announcement

MemX: Supporting Large Memory Applications in Xen Virtual Machines

 Kartik Gopalan, Computer Science at SUNY Binghamton

 Wednesday, June 20, 2007
  3 p.m., Room 1000 SEO

 Abstract:

 Modern data centers increasingly use virtual machines (VMs) to
partition server resources and improve utilization efficiency. These
VMs often need to support disk-bound and memory-intensive large
dataset workloads, such as enterprise databases, data mining, and web
services, which can strain the limited I/O and memory resources within
a single VM.  This talk will describe the design and implementation of
a fully transparent distributed system in the Xen Virtual Machine
environment called MemX, that coordinates the use of cluster-wide
memory resources to support low-latency I/O operations.  Applications
using MemX do not require specialized APIs, libraries, recompilation,
relinking, or dataset preparations.  Performance evaluations in both
virtualized and non-virtualized Linux shows that large dataset
applications and multiple concurrent VMs achieve significant speedups
using MemX compared against virtualized local and iSCSI  disks.  As a
side benefit, live Xen VMs using MemX can migrate seamlessly without
disrupting any running applications.

 Bio:
 Kartik Gopalan is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the
State University of New York at Binghamton. He received his Ph.D. in
Computer Science from Stony Brook University (2003), M.S. in Computer
Science from Indian Institute of Technology at Chennai (1996), and
B.E. in Computer Engineering from Delhi Institute of Technology
(1994).  His research interests lie in performance guarantees and
resource virtualization in operating systems and networks.



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