MIKELANGELO at Linux Plumbers Conference 2017 in Los Angeles

IBMers Kalman Meth and Mike Rapoport have brought Mikelangelo technology to the attention of Linux Plumbers conference audience in September 2017 in Los Angeles. The Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) is a developer conference for the open source community. The LPC brings together the top developers working on the “plumbing” of Linux — kernel subsystems, core…

Follow @mikelangelo_eu Introduction If you read our previous post on sKVM, you know that I/O performance is the main source of overhead in virtualized environments today. In the world of virtualization, all hypervisors suffer from reduced I/O throughput, and KVM is no exception. So the result is that people who have I/O intensive workloads tend to…

How sKVM Will Beat the I/O Performance of KVM

Follow @mikelangelo_eu In this article, we tell you how the MIKELANGELO project aims to improve the I/O performance of virtual machines. The inability of virtual machines to run HPC and big data applications in production due to low I/O performance motivates our work. Read on to learn why we want to improve the performance of…