Blocking vs. non-blocking coordinated checkpointing for large-scale fault tolerant MPI

A long-term trend in high-performance computing is the increasing number of nodes in parallel computing platforms, which entails a higher failure probability. Fault tolerant programming environments should be used to guarantee the safe execution of critical applications. Research in fault tolerant M...

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Published in:Conference on High Performance Networking and Computing: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing; 11-17 Nov. 2006 pp. 127 - es
Main Authors: Coti, Camille, Herault, Thomas, Lemarinier, Pierre, Pilard, Laurence, Rezmerita, Ala, Rodriguez, Eric, Cappello, Franck
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 11.11.2006
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Computing methodologies > Concurrent computing methodologies > Concurrent programming languages
General and reference > Cross-computing tools and techniques > Performance
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software verification and validation > Operational analysis
Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools > General programming languages > Language types > Concurrent programming languages
Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Extra-functional properties > Software fault tolerance > Checkpoint > restart
Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Software system structures > Distributed systems organizing principles
ISBN:0769527000, 9780769527000
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Summary:A long-term trend in high-performance computing is the increasing number of nodes in parallel computing platforms, which entails a higher failure probability. Fault tolerant programming environments should be used to guarantee the safe execution of critical applications. Research in fault tolerant MPI has led to the development of several fault tolerant MPI environments. Different approaches are being proposed using a variety of fault tolerant message passing protocols based on coordinated checkpointing or message logging. The most popular approach is with coordinated checkpointing. In the literature, two different concepts of coordinated checkpointing have been proposed: blocking and nonblocking. However they have never been compared quantitatively and their respective scalability remains unknown. The contribution of this paper is to provide the first comparison between these two approaches and a study of their scalability. We have implemented the two approaches within the MPICH environments and evaluate their performance using the NAS parallel benchmarks.
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ISBN:0769527000
9780769527000
DOI:10.1145/1188455.1188587