Performance and portability of the SciBy virtual machine

Rasmus Andersen, Brian Vinter

Abstract

The Scientific Bytecode Virtual Machine is a virtual machine designed specifically for performance, security, and portability of scientific applications deployed in a Grid environment. The performance overhead normally incurred by virtual machines is mitigated using native optimized scientific libraries, security is obtained by sandboxing techniques. Lastly, by executing platform-independent bytecodes, the machine is highly portable. To evaluate the machine, we demonstrate several use-case scenarios from some of the intended application domains. Further, we show the ease of porting the machine and distributing its jobs to a variety of predominant architectures and compare the results with native execution.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2010 19th IEEE International Workshop on Enabling Technologies : Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE)
Number of pages6
PublisherIEEE
Publication date2010
Pages252-257
ISBN (Print)978-1-4244-7216-1
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4244-7217-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Event19th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises - Larissa, Greece
Duration: 28 Jun 201030 Jun 2010
Conference number: 19

Conference

Conference19th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies
Number19
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityLarissa
Period28/06/201030/06/2010

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