Fault-Tolerance Techniques for High-Performance Computing

✍ Scribed by Thomas Herault, Yves Robert (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 325
• Series: Computer Communications and Networks
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Fault Tolerance Techniques for High-Performance Computing....Pages 3-85
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Errors and Faults....Pages 89-144
Fault-Tolerant MPI....Pages 145-228
Using Replication for Resilience on Exascale Systems....Pages 229-278
Energy-Aware Checkpointing Strategies....Pages 279-317
Back Matter....Pages 319-320

✦ Subjects

System Performance and Evaluation; Performance and Reliability; Numeric Computing