FIMD-MPI: a tool for injecting faults into MPI application

Author

Blough, Douglas M. ; Liu, Peng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

241

Lastpage

247

Abstract

Parallel computing is seeing increasing use in critical applications. The need therefore arises to test the robustness of parallel applications in the presence of exceptional conditions, or faults. Communication-software-based fault injection is an extremely flexible approach to robustness testing in message-passing parallel computers. A fault injection methodology and tool that use this approach are presented. The tool, known as FIMD-MPI, allows injection of faults into MPI-based applications. The structure and operation of FIMD-MPI are described and the use of the tool is illustrated on an example fault-tolerant MPI application

Keywords

fault tolerant computing; message passing; parallel processing; FIMD-MPI; MPI application; communication-software-based fault injection; faults injection; message-passing parallel computers; parallel computing; robustness testing; Application software; Clocks; Computer errors; Concurrent computing; Error correction; Fault tolerance; Parallel algorithms; Synchronization; Testing; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2000. IPDPS 2000. Proceedings. 14th International

Conference_Location

Cancun

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0574-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPDPS.2000.845991

Filename

845991