Large-scale analysis of docker images and performance implications for container storage systems

N Zhao, V Tarasov, H Albahar, A Anwar… - … on Parallel and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Docker containers have become a prominent solution for supporting modern enterprise
applications due to the highly desirable features of isolation, low overhead, and efficient …

Efficient user-level storage disaggregation for deep learning

Y Zhu, W Yu, B Jiao, K Mohror, A Moody… - 2019 IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On large-scale high performance computing (HPC) systems, applications are provisioned
with aggregated resources to meet their peak demands for brief periods. This results in …

Docker container scheduler for I/O intensive applications running on NVMe SSDs

J Bhimani, Z Yang, N Mi, J Yang, Q Xu… - … on Multi-Scale …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By using fast back-end storage, performance benefits of a lightweight container platform can
be leveraged with quick I/O response. Nevertheless, the performance of simultaneously …

Stateful container migration in geo-distributed environments

PS Junior, D Miorandi, G Pierre - 2020 IEEE international …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Container migration is an essential functionality in large-scale geo-distributed platforms
such as fog computing infrastructures. Contrary to migration within a single data center, long …

Carving perfect layers out of docker images

D Skourtis, L Rupprecht, V Tarasov… - 11th USENIX Workshop …, 2019 - usenix.org
Container frameworks such as Docker have changed the way developers package, share,
and deploy applications. Container images form a cornerstone of this new model. Images …

Nvme-oaf: Towards adaptive nvme-of for io-intensive workloads on hpc cloud

A Kashyap, X Lu - Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Applications running inside containers or virtual machines, traditionally use TCP/IP for
communication in HPC clouds and data centers. The TCP/IP path usually becomes a major …

An End-to-end High-performance Deduplication Scheme for Docker Registries and Docker Container Storage Systems

N Zhao, M Lin, H Albahar, AK Paul, Z Huan… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The wide adoption of Docker containers for supporting agile and elastic enterprise
applications has led to a broad proliferation of container images. The associated storage …

Container-aware I/O stack: bridging the gap between container storage drivers and solid state devices

S Wu, Z Huang, P Chen, H Fan, S Ibrahim… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Solid State Devices (SSDs) have been widely adopted in containerized cloud platforms as
they provide parallel and high-speed data accesses for critical data-intensive applications …

Multi-grained Trace Collection, Analysis, and Management of Diverse Container Images

Z Huang, Q Zhang, H Fan, W Xue, S Wu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Container technology is getting popular in cloud environments due to its lightweight feature
and convenient deployment. The container registry plays a critical role in container-based …

Lightpool: A nvme-of-based high-performance and lightweight storage pool architecture for cloud-native distributed database

J Xu, Y Chen, Y Wang, W Shi, G Fang… - … Symposium on High …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging cloud-native distributed databases rely on local NVMe SSDs to provide high-
performance and highavailable data services to many cloud applications. However, the …