README.md

Virtualization Performance Comparison

Overview

Experiments for the IEEE HPEC 2021 conference paper "Performance Evaluation Comparison Between Docker and Hypervisor Virtualization." (Paper Link)

Authors

• Anna DeVries
• Shane Conaboy
• Mark Tiburu
• Li Wang

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Northeastern University

Boston, MA

Useage

chmod u+x script_<benchmark>.sh
sudo ./script_<benchmark>.sh [options]

options:
-h, --help                show brief help
-n, --number=NUMBER       specify number of experiments iterations (default 10)
-s, --system=SYSTEM       specify docker or system (default system) 

Example useage:
sudo ./script_linpack.sh -s docker # will run 10 iterations of linpack with docker containers 
sudo ./script_netperf.sh -n 20 -s system # will run 20 iterations of netperf on the system

Benchmark

IOzone

I/O Disk Performance Metric

reference: https://www.iozone.org/

LINPACK

CPU Performance Metric

reference: http://www.netlib.org/linpack/

Netperf

Network Throughput Performance Metric

reference: https://hewlettpackard.github.io/netperf/

STREAM

Memory Bandwidth Performance Metric

reference: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/

Content

1. iozone_benchmark
   • Dockerfile
   • script_iozone.sh
2. linpack_benchmark
   • Dockerfile
   • script_linpack.sh
3. netperf_benchmark
   • Dockerfile
   • script_netperf.sh
4. stream_benchmark
   • Dockerfile
   • script_stream.sh
5. results_figures
   • benchmark_results.xlsm
   • iozone_figure_read.png
   • iozone_figure_write.png
   • linpack_figure.png
   • netperf_figure.png
   • stream_figure.png