Effective Fault Tolerance for Agent-Based Cluster Computing

• Main Author: SHUM, Kam Hong
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1999
• Subjects: Fault tolerance; Replication; Checkpointing; Networks of workstation; Cluster computing; Parallel discrete-event simulation; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1067; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0164-1212(99)00057-6
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Long-lived parallel applications running on workstation clusters are vulnerable to single-node or multiple-node failures. Fault recovery is therefore important in avoiding immature program termination. However, much of the runtime overhead imposed by fault tolerance schemes is generally due to the c...