Fault injection framework for system resilience evaluation: Fake faults for finding future failures

Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance, Resilience'09, Co-located with the 2009 International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing Conference, HPDC'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 23-28

  Naughton, Thomas ^a,b   Bland, Wesley ^a   Vallée, Geoffroy ^a   Engelmann, Christian ^a   Scott, Stephen L ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault injection; Resilience

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT COUNT; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; FAULT INJECTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; KEY COMPONENT; LARGE SYSTEM; SOFTWARE FAULT; SYSTEM LEVELS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DIE CASTING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE TESTING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 70450252456     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1552526.1552530     Document Type: Conference Paper

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