Impact of sub-optimal checkpoint intervals on application efficiency in computational clusters

HPDC 2010 - Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 276-279

  Jones, William M ^a   Daly, John T ^b   DeBardeleben, Nathan ^c  

^a Department of Public Health   (United States)

^b Department of Defense   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Checkpointing; Prediction; Resilience; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; CHECK POINTING; COMMONLY USED; COMPUTATIONAL CLUSTER; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY; PARALLEL SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PREDICTION; QUEUEING DELAYS; RESILIENCE; SIMULATION; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; USER-CENTRIC;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; FAULT TOLERANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 78650009816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1851476.1851509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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