Fault-Tolerance Techniques for High-Performance Computing

ISBN-13: 9783319209425 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 320 str.

Thomas Herault; Yves Robert

Opis

This timely text/reference 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 algorithm-based fault tolerance. 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.Topics and features: includes self-contained contributions from an international selection of preeminent experts; provides a survey of resilience methods and performance models; examines the various sources for errors and faults in large-scale systems, detailing their characteristics, with a focus on modeling, detection and prediction; reviews the spectrum of techniques that can be applied to design a fault-tolerant message passing interface; investigates different approaches to replication, comparing these to the traditional checkpoint-recovery approach; discusses the challenge of energy consumption of fault-tolerance methods in extreme-scale systems, proposing a methodology to estimate such energy consumption.This authoritative volume is essential reading for all researchers and graduate students involved in high-performance computing.

Spis treści

Part I: General Overview

Fault-Tolerance Techniques for High-Performance Computing
Jack Dongarra, Thomas Herault and Yves Robert

Part II: Technical Contributions

Errors and Faults
Ana Gainaru and Franck Cappello

Fault-Tolerant MPI
Aurelien Bouteiller

Using Replication for Resilience on Exascale Systems
Henri Casanova, Frédéric Vivien and Dounia Zaidouni

Energy-Aware Checkpointing Strategies
Guillaume Aupy, Anne Benoit, Mohammed El Mehdi Diouri, Olivier Glück and Laurent Lefèvre

Blurb

This timely text/reference 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 algorithm-based fault tolerance. 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.

Topics and features:

• Includes self-contained contributions from an international selection of preeminent experts
• Provides a survey of resilience methods and performance models
• Examines the various sources for errors and faults in large-scale systems, detailing their characteristics, with a focus on modeling, detection and prediction
• Reviews the spectrum of techniques that can be applied to design a fault-tolerant message passing interface
• Investigates different approaches to replication, comparing these to the traditional checkpoint-recovery approach
• Discusses the challenge of energy consumption of fault-tolerance methods in extreme-scale systems, proposing a methodology to estimate such energy consumption

This authoritative volume is essential reading for all researchers and graduate students involved in high-performance computing.

Dr. Thomas Herault is a Research Scientist in the Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN, USA. Dr. Yves Robert is a Professor in the Laboratory of Parallel Computing at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, and a Visiting Research Scholar in the ICL.