Addressing failures in exascale computing

Marc Snir, Robert W. Wisniewski, Jacob A. Abraham, Sarita V. Adve, Saurabh Bagchi, Pavan Balaji, Jim Belak, Pradip Bose, Franck Cappello, Bill Carlson, Andrew A. Chien, Paul Coteus, Nathan A. Debardeleben, Pedro C. Diniz, Christian Engelmann, Mattan Erez, Saverio Fazzari, Al Geist, Rinku Gupta, Fred JohnsonSriram Krishnamoorthy, Sven Leyffer, Dean Liberty, Subhasish Mitra, Todd Munson, Rob Schreiber, Jon Stearley, Eric Van Hensbergen

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Abstract

We present here a report produced by a workshop on 'Addressing failures in exascale computing' held in Park City, Utah, 4-11 August 2012. The charter of this workshop was to establish a common taxonomy about resilience across all the levels in a computing system, discuss existing knowledge on resilience across the various hardware and software layers of an exascale system, and build on those results, examining potential solutions from both a hardware and software perspective and focusing on a combined approach.The workshop brought together participants with expertise in applications, system software, and hardware; they came from industry, government, and academia, and their interests ranged from theory to implementation. The combination allowed broad and comprehensive discussions and led to this document, which summarizes and builds on those discussions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)129-173
Number of pages45
JournalInternational Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
Volume28
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2014

Funding

This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research (contract DE-AC02-06CH11357).

Keywords

  • Resilience
  • exascale
  • extreme-scale computing
  • fault-tolerance
  • high-performance computing

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