Fault-Tolerance Techniques for High-Performance Computing / edited by Thomas Herault, Yves Robert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herault, Thomas, editor.

Robert, Yves, editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Computer Science (Springer-11645)

Computer communications and networks 1617-7975

Computer Communications and Networks, 1617-7975

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer system failures.

Computer software--Reusability.

Computer software.

Numerical analysis.

System Performance and Evaluation.

Performance and Reliability.

Numeric Computing.

Local Subjects:

System Performance and Evaluation.

Performance and Reliability.

Numeric Computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (IX, 320 pages) : 113 illustrations.

Edition:

First edition 2015.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.

System Details:

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Summary:

This timely text/reference presents a comprehensive overview of fault tolerance techniques for high-performance computing (HPC). The text opens with a detailed introduction to the concepts of checkpoint protocols and scheduling algorithms, prediction, replication, silent error detection and correction, together with some application-specific techniques such as algorithm-based fault tolerance. Emphasis is placed on analytical performance models. This is then followed by a review of general-purpose techniques, including several checkpoint and rollback recovery protocols. Relevant execution scenarios are also evaluated and compared through quantitative models. Topics and features: Includes self-contained contributions from an international selection of preeminent experts Provides a survey of resilience methods and performance models Examines the various sources for errors and faults in large-scale systems, detailing their characteristics, with a focus on modeling, detection and prediction Reviews the spectrum of techniques that can be applied to design a fault-tolerant message passing interface Investigates different approaches to replication, comparing these to the traditional checkpoint-recovery approach Discusses the challenge of energy consumption of fault-tolerance methods in extreme-scale systems, proposing a methodology to estimate such energy consumption This authoritative volume is essential reading for all researchers and graduate students involved in high-performance computing. Dr. Thomas Herault is a Research Scientist in the Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN, USA. Dr. Yves Robert is a Professor in the Laboratory of Parallel Computing at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, and a Visiting Research Scholar in the ICL.

Contents:

Part I: General Overview

Fault-Tolerance Techniques for High-Performance Computing

Part II: Technical Contributions

Errors and Faults

Fault-Tolerant MPI

Using Replication for Resilience on Exascale Systems

Energy-Aware Check pointing Strategies.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-319-20943-2

9783319209432

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