Fault-Tolerance Mechanisms for a Parallel Programming System — A Responsiveness Perspective

Holger Karl ()
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Holger Karl: Humboldt-University of Berlin, Institut für Informatik

A chapter in Communication-Based Systems, 2000, pp 43-54 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Clusters of workstations are an attractive environment for high performance computing. For some applications, however, clusters still lack certain properties. One such property is responsive (dependable and timely) execution of programs. This paper studies two mechanisms (checkpointing and replication) to improve the responsiveness (the probability of meeting a deadline in the presence of faults) of a parallel programming system, Calypso, by ameliorating a single point of failure of Calypso. Experiments show that checkpointing is a suitable tool to achieve high responsiveness and that already a very modest degree of replication is sufficient for improved responsiveness.

Keywords: Message Passing Interface; Multicast Group; Fault Injection; Fault Rate; Defense Advance Research Project Agency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9608-4_4

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