The Average Availability of Parallel Checkpointing Systems and Its Importance in Selecting Runtime Parameters

``The Average Availability of Parallel Checkpointing Systems and Its Importance in Selecting Runtime Parameters''

FTCS-29: 29th International Symposium on Fault-tolerant Computing, Madison, WI, June, 1999, pp. 250-259.

The journal version of the paper was published in JPDC in 2001 and is an expansion of this work. Please see this link for information about that paper. Also, please cite that paper in preference to this one.

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Abstract

Performance prediction of checkpointing systems in the presence of failures is a well-studied research area. While the literature abounds with performance models of checkpointing systems, none address the issue of selecting runtime parameters other than the optimal checkpointing interval. In particular, the issue of processor allocation is typically ignored. In this paper, we briefly present a performance model for long-running parallel computations that execute with checkpointing enabled. We then discuss how it is relevant to today's parallel computing environments and software, and present case studies of using the model to select runtime parameters.

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author          J. S. Plank and M. G. Thomason
title           The Average Availability of Parallel Checkpointing
                Systems and Its Importance in Selecting Runtime
                Parameters
booktitle       29th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing
address         Madison, WI,
month           June
year            1999
pages           250--259
where           http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~jplank/plank/papers/FTCS29.html

Bibtex:

@INPROCEEDINGS{pt:99:aa,
        author = "J. S. Plank and M. G. Thomason",
        title = "The Average Availability of Parallel Checkpointing
                Systems and Its Importance in Selecting Runtime
                Parameters",
        booktitle = "29th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing",
        address = "Madison, WI,",
        month = "June",
        year = "1999",
        pages = "250--259",
        where = "http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~jplank/plank/papers/FTCS29.html"
}