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 …

Global Computing platforms, large scale clusters and future TeraGRID systems gather
thousands of nodes for computing parallel scientific applications. At this scale, node failures …

The running times of many computational science applications, such as protein-folding
using ab initio methods, are much longer than the mean-time-to-failure of high-performance …

To be able to fully exploit ever larger computing platforms, modern HPC applications and
system software must be able to tolerate inevitable faults. Historically, MPI implementations …

In this paper we examine the topic of writing fault-tolerant Message Passing Interface (MPI)
applications. We discuss the meaning of fault tolerance in general and what the MPI …

Execution of MPI applications on clusters and Grid deployments suffering from node and
network failures motivates the use of fault tolerant MPI implementations. We present MPICH …

High performance computing platforms such as Clusters, Grid and Desktop Grids are
becoming larger and subject to more frequent failures. MPI is one of the most used message …

Communication induced checkpointing (CIC) allows processes in a distributed computation
to take independent checkpoints and to avoid the domino effect. This paper presents an …

MPI is one of the most adopted programming models for large clusters and grid
deployments. However, these systems often suffer from network or node failures. This raises …

Over the past decade the number of processors used in high performance computing has
increased to hundreds of thousands. As a direct consequence, and while the computational …