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Autori principali: Takahashi, Keichi, Hayami, Tomonori, Mukaizono, Yu, Teramae, Yuki, Date, Susumu
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10820
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author Takahashi, Keichi
Hayami, Tomonori
Mukaizono, Yu
Teramae, Yuki
Date, Susumu
author_facet Takahashi, Keichi
Hayami, Tomonori
Mukaizono, Yu
Teramae, Yuki
Date, Susumu
contents mdx II is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud platform designed to accelerate data science research and foster cross-disciplinary collaborations among universities and research institutions in Japan. Unlike traditional high-performance computing systems, mdx II leverages OpenStack to provide customizable and isolated computing environments consisting of virtual machines, virtual networks, and advanced storage. This paper presents a comprehensive performance evaluation of mdx II, including a comparison to Amazon Web Services (AWS). We evaluated the performance of a 16-vCPU VM from multiple aspects including floating-point computing performance, memory throughput, network throughput, file system and object storage performance, and real-world application performance. Compared to an AWS 16-vCPU instance, the results indicated that mdx II outperforms AWS in many aspects and demonstrated that mdx II holds significant promise for high-performance data analytics (HPDA) workloads. We also evaluated the virtualization overhead using a 224-vCPU VM occupying an entire host. The results suggested that the virtualization overhead is minimal for compute-intensive benchmarks, while memory-intensive benchmarks experienced larger overheads. These findings are expected to help users of mdx II to obtain high performance for their data science workloads and offer insights to the designers of future data-centric cloud platforms.
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spellingShingle Performance analysis of mdx II: A next-generation cloud platform for cross-disciplinary data science research
Takahashi, Keichi
Hayami, Tomonori
Mukaizono, Yu
Teramae, Yuki
Date, Susumu
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
mdx II is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud platform designed to accelerate data science research and foster cross-disciplinary collaborations among universities and research institutions in Japan. Unlike traditional high-performance computing systems, mdx II leverages OpenStack to provide customizable and isolated computing environments consisting of virtual machines, virtual networks, and advanced storage. This paper presents a comprehensive performance evaluation of mdx II, including a comparison to Amazon Web Services (AWS). We evaluated the performance of a 16-vCPU VM from multiple aspects including floating-point computing performance, memory throughput, network throughput, file system and object storage performance, and real-world application performance. Compared to an AWS 16-vCPU instance, the results indicated that mdx II outperforms AWS in many aspects and demonstrated that mdx II holds significant promise for high-performance data analytics (HPDA) workloads. We also evaluated the virtualization overhead using a 224-vCPU VM occupying an entire host. The results suggested that the virtualization overhead is minimal for compute-intensive benchmarks, while memory-intensive benchmarks experienced larger overheads. These findings are expected to help users of mdx II to obtain high performance for their data science workloads and offer insights to the designers of future data-centric cloud platforms.
title Performance analysis of mdx II: A next-generation cloud platform for cross-disciplinary data science research
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10820