Fault-Tolerance Techniques for High-Performance Computing

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-319-20942-5
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 664 g

Reihe: Computer Communications and Networks

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herault, Thomas

Robert, Yves

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Hochleistungsrechnen, Supercomputer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.