System-level fault-tolerance in large-scale parallel machines with buffered coscheduling

Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2004 (Abstracts and CD-ROM)

Volumn 18, Issue , 2004, Pages 2903-2910

  Petrini, Fabrizio ^a   Davis, Kei ^a   Sancho, José Carlos ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Checkpointing; Communication protocols; Failure characterization; Fault tolerance; Large scale parallel computers; Operating systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RELIABILITY; SCHEDULING; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

CHECKPOINT; FAILURE CHARACTERIZATION; LARGE-SCALE PARALLEL COMPUTERS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 12444268325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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