FAIL-MPI: How Fault-Tolerant Is Fault-Tolerant MPI?

Author

Hoarau, William ; Lemarinier, Pierre ; Herault, Thomas ; Rodriguez, Eric ; Tixeuil, Sébastien ; Cappello, Franck

Author_Institution

Univ. Paris Sud-XI, LRI, Orsay

fYear

2006

fDate

25-28 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

One of the topics of paramount importance in the development of cluster and grid middleware is the impact of faults since their occurrence in grid infrastructures and in large-scale distributed systems is common. MPI (message passing interface) is a popular abstraction for programming distributed and parallel applications. FAIL (FAult Injection Language) is an abstract language for fault occurrence description capable of expressing complex and realistic fault scenarios. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of using FAIL to inject faults in a fault-tolerant MPI implementation. Our middleware, FAIL-MPI, is used to carry quantitative and qualitative faults and stress testing

Keywords

fault tolerant computing; message passing; middleware; FAIL-MPI; FAult Injection Language; abstract language; distributed programming; fault occurrence description; fault-tolerant MPI; message passing interface; middleware; parallel programming; qualitative faults; quantitative faults; stress testing; Application software; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Large-scale systems; Message passing; Middleware; Protocols; Stress; System testing; Vehicle crash testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cluster Computing, 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

ISSN

1552-5244

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0327-8

Electronic_ISBN

1552-5244

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLUSTR.2006.311851

Filename

4100357