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The Twenty-Sixth Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS '96)
An approach towards benchmarking of fault-tolerant commercial systems
Sendai, Japan
June 25-June 27
ISBN: 0-8186-7261-7
T.K. Tsai, Coordinated Sci. Lab., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
R.K. Iyer, Coordinated Sci. Lab., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
D. Jewitt, Coordinated Sci. Lab., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
This paper presents a benchmark for dependable systems. The benchmark consists of two metrics, number of catastrophic incidents and performance degradation, which are obtained by a tool that (1) generates synthetic workloads that produce a high level of CPU, memory, and I/O activity and (2) injects CPU, memory, and I/O faults according to an injection strategy. The benchmark has been installed on two TMR-based prototype machines: TMR Prototype A and TMR Prototype B. An implementation for a third prototype, is based on a duplex architecture, is in progress. The results demonstrate the utility of the benchmark in comparing the system-level fault tolerance of these machines and in providing insight into their design. In particular the benchmark shows that Prototype B suffers fewer catastrophic incidents than Prototype A under the same workload conditions and fault injection method. However Prototype B also suffers more performance degradation in the presence of faults, which might be an important concern for time-critical applications.
Index Terms:
fault tolerant computing; reliability; performance evaluation; computer testing; benchmarking; fault-tolerant commercial systems; dependable systems; catastrophic incidents; performance degradation; synthetic workloads; TMR-based prototype machines; duplex architecture; system-level fault tolerance
Citation:
T.K. Tsai, R.K. Iyer, D. Jewitt, "An approach towards benchmarking of fault-tolerant commercial systems," ftcs, pp.314, The Twenty-Sixth Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS '96), 1996
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