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GPU-Virt-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmarking Framework for Software-Based GPU Virtualization Systems

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2025-12-30 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The proliferation of GPU-accelerated workloads, particularly in artificial intelligence and large language model (LLM) inference, has created unprecedented demand for efficient GPU resource sharing in cloud and container environments. While NVIDIA's Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) technology provides hardware-level isolation, its availability is limited to high-end datacenter GPUs. Software-based virtualization solutions such as HAMi-core and BUD-FCSP offer alternatives for broader GPU families but lack standardized evaluation methodologies. We present GPU-Virt-Bench, a comprehensive benchmarking framework that evaluates GPU virtualization systems across 56 performance metrics organized into 10 categories. Our framework measures overhead, isolation quality, LLM-specific performance, memory bandwidth, cache behavior, PCIe throughput, multi-GPU communication, scheduling efficiency, memory fragmentation, and error recovery. GPU-Virt-Bench enables systematic comparison between software virtualization approaches and ideal MIG behavior, providing actionable insights for practitioners deploying GPU resources in multi-tenant environments. We demonstrate the framework's utility through evaluation of HAMi-core, BUD-FCSP, and simulated MIG baselines, revealing performance characteristics critical for production deployment decisions.

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@article{arxiv.2512.22125,
  title  = {GPU-Virt-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmarking Framework for Software-Based GPU Virtualization Systems},
  author = {Jithin VG and Ditto PS},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.22125},
  year   = {2025}
}
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