In the research reported in this paper, transient faults were injected in the nodes and in the communication subsystem (by using software fault injection) of a commercial parallel machine running several real applications. The results showed that a significant percentage of faults caused the system to produce wrong results while the application seemed to terminate normally, thus demonstrating that fault tolerance techniques are required in parallel systems, not only to assure that long-running applications can terminate but also (and more important) that the results produced are correct. Of the techniques tested to reduce the percentage of undetected wrong results only ABFT proved to be effective. For other simple error detection methods to be effective, they have to be designed in, and not added as an after thought. Faults injected in the communication subsystem proved the effectiveness of end-to-end CRCs on the data movements between processors.
Subject
Parallel and Distributed Computing
Conference
Twenty-Six Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS-26), June 1996
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Year 2004 : 3 citations
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Year 2003 : 2 citations
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Year 2001 : 1 citations
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Year 2000 : 2 citations
1. Cristian Constantinescu, "Teraflops supercomputer: Architecture and validation of the fault tolerance mechanisms?, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 49, no. 9, Setembro de 2000, pp. 886-894.
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Year 1999 : 7 citations
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Year 1998 : 5 citations
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Year 1997 : 7 citations
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Year 1996 : 2 citations
1. N. Neves e W. K. Fuchs, "Using time to improve the performance of coordinated checkpointing", Proceedings of the International Computer Performance & Dependability Symposium, Setembro de 1996, pp. 282-291;
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