Performance evaluation of fault tolerance for parallel applications in networked environments

Author

Sens, Pierre ; Folliot, Bertil

Author_Institution

Paris VI Univ., France

fYear

1997

fDate

11-15 Aug 1997

Firstpage

334

Lastpage

341

Abstract

This paper presents the performance evaluation of a software fault manager for distributed applications. Dubbed STAR, it uses the natural redundancy existing in networks of workstations to offer a high level of fault tolerance. Fault management is transparent to the supported parallel applications. STAR is application independent, highly configurable and easily portable to UNIX-like operating systems. The current implementation is based on independent checkpointing and message logging. Measurements show the efficiency and the limits of this implementation. The challenge is to show that a software approach to fault tolerance can efficiently be implemented in a standard networked environment

Keywords

distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; performance evaluation; system recovery; STAR; fault management; fault tolerance; independent checkpointing; message logging; networked environments; parallel applications; performance evaluation; software fault manager; Application software; Buffer storage; Checkpointing; Environmental management; Fault tolerance; Hardware; Intelligent networks; Operating systems; Redundancy; Software performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing, 1997., Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bloomington, IL

ISSN

0190-3918

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8108-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPP.1997.622663

Filename

622663