Fault tolerance in the WebCom metacomputer

被引：2

作者：

Morrison, JP ^{[1
]}

Kennedy, JJ ^{[1
]}

Power, DA ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Natl Univ Ireland Univ Coll Cork, Dept Comp Sci, Cork, Ireland

来源：

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL PROCESSING WORKSHOPS, PROCEEDINGS | 2001年

关键词：

fault tolerance; condensed graphs; metacomputing; distributed computing; WebCom;

D O I：

10.1109/ICPPW.2001.951958

中图分类号：

TP301 [理论、方法];

学科分类号：

081202 ;

摘要：

This paper addresses fault tolerance in the WebCom metacomputer. WebCom's computation platform is dynamically reconfigurable and volunteer-based. Since its constituent machines may join and leave unpredictability, fault survival and efficient fault recovery is of paramount importance. A fault tolerance mechanism is outlined, which relies on a fast and efficient processor replacement procedure. It is shown that the characteristics of this procedure, together with the hierarchical and referentially transparent nature of WebCom executions, can be used to limit the affect of a fault to its immediate neighbourhood(1).

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页码：245 / 250

页数：4