Fault-Tolerance Techniques for High-Performance Computing
Author | : Thomas Herault |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783319209432 |
ISBN-13 | : 3319209434 |
Rating | : 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Download or read book Fault-Tolerance Techniques for High-Performance Computing written by Thomas Herault and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely text 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 ABFT. 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. Features: provides a survey of resilience methods and performance models; examines the various sources for errors and faults in large-scale systems; reviews the spectrum of techniques that can be applied to design a fault-tolerant MPI; investigates different approaches to replication; discusses the challenge of energy consumption of fault-tolerance methods in extreme-scale systems.