23rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'03)
Group Membership and Wide-Area Master-Worker Computations
Providence, Rhode Island
May 19-May 22
ISBN: 0-7695-1920-2
Group communications systems have been designed to provide an infrastructure for fault-tolerance in distributed systems, including wide-area systems. In our work on master- worker computation for GriPhyN, which is a large project in the area of the computational grid, we asked the question should we build our wide-area master-worker computation using wide-area group communications? This paper explains why we decided doing so was not a good idea.
Citation:
Kjetil Jacobsen, Xianan Zhang, Keith Marzullo, "Group Membership and Wide-Area Master-Worker Computations," icdcs, pp.570, 23rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'03), 2003