Vision

The vision of MIKELANGELO project is to make virtual infrastructures ready to run big data, high performance computing, and I/O intensive applications in production.

Cloud and HPC architectures are inefficient. Layers, introduced by legacy and compatibility requirements, result in complexity of software execution, set-up, management and security. MIKELANGELO is targeting the sweet-spot between efficiency, stability and security.

We focus on lowest layers of virtual infrastructure – on virtual IO in the hypervisor (KVM), guest (unikernel – OSv) and between them (virtual RDMA – vRDMA).

Building on these pillars, supporting infrastructure is built:

OSv Application Management (link);
Seastar system library for improved parallel performance (link)
KVM extensions for IO improvement (link)
vRDMA extension (link)
vTorque (extensions for PBS Torque)
SCAM (link)
Snap, instrumentation and supporting framework (link)

Download different releases of our components using our Releases webpage. You can speed-up only your KVM; alternatively, just use OSv under KVM; plug everything under OpenStack (we are compatible) or deploy OSv using vTorque (backwards compatible with Torque).

Components can be used in typical use-cases falling in Cloud, HPC and HPC-Cloud categories. Mix and match them to fit your use case.