Fault Tolerance in Message Passing Interface Programs

  • Authors:
  • William Gropp;Ewing Lusk

  • Affiliations:
  • Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL 60439, USA;Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL 60439, USA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

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 Standard has to say about it. We survey several approaches to this problem, namely checkpointing, restructuring a class of standard MPI programs, modifying MPI semantics, and extending the MPI specification. We conclude that, within certain constraints, MPI can provide a useful context for writing application programs that exhibit significant degrees of fault tolerance.