Application-specific fault tolerance via data access characterization

Authors:
Nawab Ali;Sriram Krishnamoorthy;Niranjan Govind;Karol Kowalski;Ponnuswamy Sadayappan
Affiliations:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA;Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA;Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA;Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA;The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Venue:
Euro-Par'11 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Parallel processing - Volume Part II
Year:
2011

Citing 12
Cited 1

File-Access Characteristics of Parallel Scientific Workloads

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
A survey of rollback-recovery protocols in message-passing systems

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Gprof: A call graph execution profiler

SIGPLAN '82 Proceedings of the 1982 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction
Checkpointing for Peta-Scale Systems: A Look into the Future of Practical Rollback-Recovery

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
The Tau Parallel Performance System

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
Advances, Applications and Performance of the Global Arrays Shared Memory Programming Toolkit

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
PNMPI tools: a whole lot greater than the sum of their parts

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Characterizing the I/O behavior of scientific applications on the Cray XT

PDSW '07 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Petascale data storage: held in conjunction with Supercomputing '07
Algorithm-based fault tolerance applied to high performance computing

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Algorithm-based checkpoint-free fault tolerance for parallel matrix computations on volatile resources

IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
A Redundant Communication Approach to Scalable Fault Tolerance in PGAS Programming Models

PDP '11 Proceedings of the 2011 19th International Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing
Tolerating correlated failures for generalized Cartesian distributions via bipartite matching

Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers

Poster: FOX: a fault-oblivious extreme scale execution environment

Proceedings of the 2011 companion on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis Companion

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Recent trends in semiconductor technology and supercomputer design predict an increasing probability of faults during an application's execution. Designing an application that is resilient to system failures requires careful evaluation of the impact of various approaches on preserving key application state. In this paper, we present our experiences in an ongoing effort to make a large computational chemistry application fault tolerant. We construct the data access signatures of key application modules to evaluate alternative fault tolerance approaches. We present the instrumentation methodology, characterization of the application modules, and evaluation of fault tolerance techniques using the information collected. The application signatures developed capture application characteristics not traditionally revealed by performance tools. We believe these can be used in the design and evaluation of runtimes beyond fault tolerance.