The paper, "High Performance Virtual Machine Migration with RDMA over Modern Interconnect" by Wei Huang, Qi Gao, Jiuxing Liu ('04 CSE) and DK Panda explores increasing the efficiency of virtual machine (VM) migration. As a basis for many administration tools in modern clusters and data-centers, VM migration is desired to be extremely efficient to reduce migration time and performance impact on hosted applications.
The group proposes a high performance virtual machine migration design by using RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access). By taking advantage of the low software overhead and the one-sided nature of RDMA, their design significantly improves the efficiency of VM migration.
The Network-Based Computing Laboratory (NowLab), led by Professor Panda, had a very strong showing at this year's conference. In addition to the best paper award, the program included three other papers by current and former members of NowLab. Jiuxing Liu a co-author of the best paper, is currently at IBM TJ Watson. He is a PhD graduate of Professor Panda's research group. Professor Panda and former PhD student, Pavan Balaji ('06 CSE), currently a post-doctoral researcher at Argonne National Lab, will co-present an invited tutorial on InfiniBand and GigE entitled Designing High-End Computing Systems with InfiniBand and 10-Gigabit Ethernet Ethernet.