TNet: A Reliable System Area Network
IEEE Micro
Evaluating the Impact of Communication Architecture on the Performability of Cluster-Based Services
HPCA '03 Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture
Using fault injection and modeling to evaluate the performability of cluster-based services
USITS'03 Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 4
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Characteristics of failures occurring in networked computing systems are still poorly understood. As a consequence, this is a rich area for exploration, especially with the arrival of new network interface standards, such as Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) adopted by Microsoft, Intel, and Compaq [1]. The goal of VIA is to improve the performance of distributed applications by reducing the latency associated with critical messages exchange between processes in Windows NT based systems.In this paper, we propose the Software Multilevel Fault Injection (SMiFI) mechanism to evaluate failure characteristics of networked systems specifically VIA. The mechanism covers all software protocol layers of the host inter-face and corrupts both messages and the computation engines that manipulate messages.