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Fault-Tolerance Techniques for High-Performance Computing

  • The first complete overview of this increasingly important field
  • Presents a unique, rigorous approach based on the design of analytical models to predict performance
  • Provides a coherent collection of valuable insights from internationally-renowned experts with considerable expertise
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Computer Communications and Networks (CCN)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. General Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Fault Tolerance Techniques for High-Performance Computing

      • Jack Dongarra, Thomas Herault, Yves Robert
      Pages 3-85
  3. Technical Contributions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
    2. Errors and Faults

      • Ana Gainaru, Franck Cappello
      Pages 89-144
    3. Fault-Tolerant MPI

      • AurĂ©lien Bouteiller
      Pages 145-228
    4. Using Replication for Resilience on Exascale Systems

      • Henri Casanova, FrĂ©dĂ©ric Vivien, Dounia Zaidouni
      Pages 229-278
    5. Energy-Aware Checkpointing Strategies

      • Guillaume Aupy, Anne Benoit, Mohammed El Mehdi Diouri, Olivier GlĂĽck, Laurent Lefèvre
      Pages 279-317
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 319-320

About this book

This timely text 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 ABFT. 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. Features: provides a survey of resilience methods and performance models; examines the various sources for errors and faults in large-scale systems; reviews the spectrum of techniques that can be applied to design a fault-tolerant MPI; investigates different approaches to replication; discusses the challenge of energy consumption of fault-tolerance methods in extreme-scale systems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

    Thomas Herault

  • Ecole Normale SupĂ©rieure de Lyon, Lyon, France

    Yves Robert

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fault-Tolerance Techniques for High-Performance Computing

  • Editors: Thomas Herault, Yves Robert

  • Series Title: Computer Communications and Networks

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20943-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20942-5Published: 15 July 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35560-3Published: 15 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20943-2Published: 01 July 2015

  • Series ISSN: 1617-7975

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-8433

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 320

  • Number of Illustrations: 113 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: System Performance and Evaluation, Performance and Reliability, Numeric Computing

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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