Performance of Fault Tolerant Networks of Workstations

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1999 International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks (ISPAN '99)

Fremantle, Australia

June 23-June 25

ISBN: 0-7695-0231-8

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	John Morris, "Performance of Fault Tolerant Networks of Workstations," Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks, International Symposium on, pp. 125, 1999 International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks (ISPAN '99), 1999.

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	@article{ 10.1109/ISPAN.1999.778928, author = {John Morris}, title = {Performance of Fault Tolerant Networks of Workstations}, journal ={Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks, International Symposium on}, volume = {0}, year = {1999}, issn = {1087-4089}, pages = {125}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISPAN.1999.778928}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - CONF JO - Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks, International Symposium on TI - Performance of Fault Tolerant Networks of Workstations SN - 1087-4089 SP EP A1 - John Morris, PY - 1999 KW - Fault Tolerance; Networks of Workstations; Dataflow VL - 0 JA - Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks, International Symposium on ER -

John Morris, The University of Western Australia

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISPAN.1999.778928

Functional or dataflow models of computation enable a program's run-time system to determine which portions of a computation must be repeated when faults occur. Straight-forward modifications to the run-time system of Cilk 2.0 - a threaded extension of C - enable a Network of Workstations parallel processing system to tolerate fail-stop faults of the individual processors or the network.It is shown in this work that the overheads needed to provide this fault tolerance are mainly CPU cycles and memory, with very little additional network load being generated in the absence of faults.This makes it feasible to run long computations successfully on the typical networks of workstations found in large organisations where ownership, control and distribution of the individual processors may be widely distributed.

Index Terms:

Fault Tolerance; Networks of Workstations; Dataflow

Citation:

John Morris, "Performance of Fault Tolerant Networks of Workstations," ispan, pp.125, 1999 International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks (ISPAN '99), 1999

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