This survey covers rollback-recovery techniques that do not require special language
constructs. In the first part of the survey we classify rollback-recovery protocols into …

With the popularity of cloud computing, it has become crucial to provide on-demand services
dynamically according to the user's requirements. Reliability and energy efficiency are two …

Internet of Vehicles (IoV) has drawn great interest recent years. Various IoV applications
have emerged for improving the safety, efficiency, and comfort on the road. Cloud computing …

Tachyon is a distributed file system enabling reliable data sharing at memory speed across
cluster computing frameworks. While caching today improves read workloads, writes are …

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

As the geographically distributed cloud infrastructure continues to grow in scale and the
intricacy of workflow applications increases, there is a growing threat to the operational …

Today's largest High Performance Computing (HPC) systems exceed one Petaflops (10^ 15)
floating point operations per second) and exascale systems are projected within seven …

This paper presents ReVive, a novel general-purpose rollback recovery mechanism for
shared-memory multiprocessors. ReVive carefully balances the conflicting requirements of …

In a heterogeneous distributed computing system, machine and network failures are
inevitable and can have an adverse effect on applications executing on the system. To …

Given the scale of massively parallel systems, occurrence of faults is no longer an exception
but a regular event. Periodic checkpointing is becoming increasingly important in these …