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<div class='jive-rendered-content'>The use of cluster computers in high performance computing environments has recently been on the rise and at present, it presents a fertile source of unsolved research problems. With the Australian National University’s (ANU) High Performance Computing (HPC) research group planning to undertake two projects in the field of cluster computing very shortly, the aim of this survey is to lay the groundwork for both projects by providing comprehensive, up to date information on current research related to virtual machines and intelligent runtime environments for use in the context of a large cluster or grid system. This survey covers a broad range of information sources, namely the proceedings of top conferences, journals, and technical reports published by notable research groups and researchers. We summarize key papers and make listings of research groups which are undertaking projects that we feel are worth taking note of. Subsequently, the information gathered is synthesized to identify unsolved problems and potential areas of future work. Notable findings presented in this survey are that paravirtualization of operating systems is no longer a necessary requirement for use with the Xen hypervisor as processor vendors Intel and AMD are building virtualization support into their processors, migration of entire operating systems now incurs as little as 100ms down time by iteratively pre copying pages. We have also come to the conclusion that an important first step in the successful development of an intelligent runtime environment is to develop a system which can accurately profile the hardware that a cluster system is made up of as well as applications that would be run on it. Authors: Samuel Chang and Peter Strazdins Date: February 2007|||||<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://cs.anu.edu.au/techreports/2007/TR-CS-07-01.pdf" target="_blank">http://cs.anu.edu.au/techreports/2007/TR-CS-07-01.pdf</a></div>

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