Process fault tolerance: Semantics, design and applications for high performance computing

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 465-477

  Fagg, Graham E ^a   Gabriel, Edgar ^a,b   Chen, Zizhong ^a   Angskun, Thara ^a   Bosilca, George ^a   Pjesivac Grbovic, Jelena ^a   Dongarra, Jack J ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; MPI and message passing; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SEMANTICS;

MASTER-SLAVE APPLICATION; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE (MPI); POINT-TO-POINT BENCHMARK;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 27844508605     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342005056137     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Agbaria, A. and Friedman, R. 1999. Starfish: fault-tolerant dynamic MPI programs on clusters of workstations. Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Redondo Beach, CA, August 34.
2. Batchu, R., Neelamegam, J., Cui, Z., Beddhua, M., Skjellum, A., Dandass, Y., and Apte, M. 2001. MPI/FT_TM: architecture and taxonomies for fault-tolerant, message-passing middleware for performance-portable parallel computing. Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Symposium of Cluster Computing and the Grid, Melbourne, Australia.
3. Beck, M. et al. 1999. HARNESS: a next generation distributed virtual machine. Future Generation Computer Systems 15(5-6):571-582.
4. Bosilca, G. et al. 2002. MPICH-V: Toward a scalable fault-tolerant MPI for volatile nodes. Proceedings of Supercomputing, Baltimore, MD, November.
5. Burns, G. and Daoud, R. 1995. Robust MPI message delivery through guaranteed resources. MPI Developers Conference, Notre Dame, IN, June.
6. Fagg, G. E., Moore, K., and Dongarra, J. J. 1999. Scalable networked information processing environment (SNIPE). Future Generation Computing Systems 15:571-582.
7. Fagg, G. E., Bukovsky, A., and Dongarra, J. J. 2001. HARNESS and fault-tolerant MPI. Parallel Computing 27: 1479-1496.
8. Gabriel, E., Fagg, G. E., and Dongarra, J. J. 2003. Evaluating the performance of MPI-2 dynamic communicators and one-sided communication. Proceedings of the 10th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting, Venice, Italy, September 29-October 2.
9. Gabriel, E. et al. 2004. Open MPI: goals, concept, and design of a next generation MPI implementation. Proceedings of the 11th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting, Budapest, Hungry.
10. Geist, A. and Engelmann, C. 2005. Development of naturally fault-tolerant algorithms for computing on 100,000 processors. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing in press.
11. Geist, G., Kohl, J., Manchek, R., and Papadopoulous, P. 1995. New features of PVM 3.4 and beyond. Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine, 5th European PVM Users' Group Meeting, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 1-10.
12. Graham, R. L., Choi, S-E., Daniel, D. J., Desai, N. N., Minnich, R. G., Rasmussen, C. E., Risinger, L. D., and Sukalski, M. W. 2002. A network-failure-tolerant message-passing system for terascale clusters. ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, New York, NY, June 22-26.
13. Gropp, W., Lusk, E., Doss, N., and Skjellum, A. 1996. A high-performance, portable implementation of the MPI message passing interface standard. Parallel Computing 22(6):789-828.
14. Louca, S., Neophytou, N., Lachanas, A., and Evripidou, P. 2000. MPI-FT: portable fault tolerance scheme for MPI. Parallel Processing Letters 10(4):371-382.
15. MPI Forum. 1995. MPI: A Message Passing Interface Standard, June, http://www.mpi-forum.org/.
16. MPI Forum. 1997. MPI-2: Extensions to the Message Passing Interface, July, http://www.mpi-forum.org/.
17. Sankaran, S., Squyres, J. M., Barrett, B., Lumsdaine, A., Duell, J., Hargrove, P., and Roman, E. 2003. The LAM/MPI checkpoint/restart framework: system-initiated check-pointing. Proceedings of the IACSI Symposium, Santa Fe, NM, October.
18. Stellner, G. 1996. Cocheck: checkpointing and process migration for MPI. Proceedings of the 10th International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS '96), Honolulu, HI.
19. Vadhiyar, S. S., Fagg, G. E., and Dongarra, J. J. 2001. Performance modeling for self-adapting collective communications for MPI. Proceedings of the IACSI Symphosium, Santa Fe, NM, October 15-18.
20. Worley, P. H. and Toonen, B. 1995. A Users's Guide to PSTSWM, ORNL Technical Report ORNL/TM-12779, July.