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On the Use of Kernel Bypass Mechanisms for High-Performance Inter-container Communications

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In this paper, we perform a comparison among a number of different virtual bridging and switching technologies, each widely available and commonly used on Linux, to provide network connectivity to co-located LXC containers for high-performance application scenarios.

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  1. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Gabriele Ara, Luca Abeni & Tommaso Cucinotta

  2. Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden

    Carlo Vitucci

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  2. Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Sachsen, Germany

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  3. Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland

    Sadaf Alam

  4. University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA

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Ara, G., Abeni, L., Cucinotta, T., Vitucci, C. (2019). On the Use of Kernel Bypass Mechanisms for High-Performance Inter-container Communications. In: Weiland, M., Juckeland, G., Alam, S., Jagode, H. (eds) High Performance Computing. ISC High Performance 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11887. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34356-9_1

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