Fault tolerance in message passing interface programs

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 363-372

  Gropp, William ^a   Lusk, Ewing ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; MPI; Parallel computing; Process management

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ERROR CORRECTION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SEMANTICS;

CHECKPOINTING TECHNIQUE; FAULT TOLERANT MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; INTERCOMMUNICATORS; PROCESS MANAGEMENT; RUNTIME;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 4344695315     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342004046045     Document Type: Article

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