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Practicable live container migrations in high performance computing clouds: Diskless, iterative, and connection-persistent
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Checkpoint/Restore techniques had been thoroughly used by the High Performance Computing (HPC) community in the context of failure recovery. Given the current trend in HPC to use containerization to obtain fast, customized, portable, flexible, and reproducible deployments of their workloads, as well as efficient and reliable sharing and management of HPC Cloud infrastructures, there is a need to integrate Checkpoint/Restore with containerization in such a way that the freeze time of the application is minimal and live migrations are practicable. Whereas current Checkpoint/Restore tools (such as CRIU) support several options to accomplish this, most of them are rarely exploited in HPC Clouds and, consequently, their potential impact on the performance is barely known. Therefore, this paper explores the use of CRIU's advanced features to implement diskless, iterative (pre-copy and post-copy) migrations of containers with external network namespaces and established TCP connections, so that memory-intensive and connection-persistent HPC applications can livemigrate. Our extensive experiments to characterize the performance impact of those features demonstrate that properly-configured live migrations incur low application downtime and memory/disk usage and are indeed feasible in containerized HPC Clouds.
Keywords:
Checkpoint/restore
Live migration
Diskless migration
Iterative migration
Networking migration
CRIU
RunC
Containerization
HPC cloud
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