BlueGene/L failure analysis and prediction models

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 425-434

  Liang, Yinglung ^a   Zhang, Yanyong ^a   Jette, Morris ^b   Sivasubramaniam, Anand ^c   Sahoo, Ramendra ^d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHECKPOINTING STRATEGIES; FAILURE EVENTS; FAILURE PREDICTION METHODS; IBM (CO);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845589803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2006.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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