Building and using a fault-tolerant MPI implementation

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 353-361

  Fagg, Graham E ^a,b   Dongarra, Jack J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault tolerant; Message passing; MPI; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA HANDLING; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SEMANTICS; STANDARDS;

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN; FAILURE DETECTION; MESSAGE HANDLING; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; STATIC PROCESS MODEL;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 4344642860     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342004046052     Document Type: Article

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