High-performance emulation of heterogeneous systems using adaptive time dilation

作者：Lee Hee Won^*; Sichitiu Mihail L; Thuente David

来源：International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 2015, 29(2): 166-183.

DOI：10.1177/1094342014554789

• Emulation
• time dilation
• virtual time
• virtualization
• virtual machines
• testbeds
• heterogeneous systems
• distributed applications

Building a testbed for evaluating the performance of large-scale heterogeneous systems can be costly and inefficient. Emulation is often used to evaluate the performance of a system in a controlled environment. Time dilation allows virtual machines (VMs) to emulate higher performance than that of their physical machine. We present an approach using adaptive time dilation to emulate large-scale distributed systems composed of heterogeneous machines and Operating Systems (OSs). In our implementation, VMs are globally synchronized. To evaluate our system, distributed VMs running Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, and Junos are emulated on general-purpose physical machines.

• 出版日期2015