Designing highly dependable systems requires a good understanding of failure
characteristics. Unfortunately, little raw data on failures in large IT installations are publicly …

Component failure in large-scale IT installations is becoming an ever-larger problem as the
number of components in a single cluster approaches a million. This article is an extension …

This chapter provides an introduction to resilience methods. The emphasis is on
checkpointing, the de-facto standard technique for resilience in High Performance …

The growing computational and storage needs of several scientific applications mandate the
deployment of extreme-scale parallel machines, such as IBM's BlueGene/L which can …

The growing complexity of hardware and software mandates the recognition of fault
occurrence in system deployment and management. While there are several techniques to …

In large-scale networked computing systems, component failures become norms instead of
exceptions. Failure prediction is a crucial technique for self-managing resource burdens …

Memory hardware reliability is an indispensable part of whole-system dependability. This
paper presents the collection of realistic memory hardware error traces (including transient …

Cloud computing research is in great need of statistical parameters derived from the
analysis of real-world systems. One aspect of this is the failure characteristics of Cloud …

In modern cloud computing systems, hundreds and even thousands of cloud servers are
interconnected by multi-layer networks. In such large-scale and complex systems, failures …

As we continue to evolve into large-scale parallel systems, many of them employing
hundreds of computing engines to take on mission-critical roles, it is crucial to design those …