An evaluation of user-level failure mitigation support in MPI

Wesley Bland; Aurelien Bouteiller; Thomas Herault; Joshua Hursey; George Bosilca; Jack J. Dongarra

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33518-1_24

An evaluation of user-level failure mitigation support in MPI

Wesley Bland, Aurelien Bouteiller, Thomas Herault, Joshua Hursey, George Bosilca, Jack J. Dongarra

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Abstract

As the scale of computing platforms becomes increasingly extreme, the requirements for application fault tolerance are increasing as well. Techniques to address this problem by improving the resilience of algorithms have been developed, but they currently receive no support from the programming model, and without such support, they are bound to fail. This paper discusses the failure-free overhead and recovery impact aspects of the User-Level Failure Mitigation proposal presented in the MPI Forum. Experiments demonstrate that fault-aware MPI has little or no impact on performance for a range of applications, and produces satisfactory recovery times when there are failures.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface - 19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2012, Proceedings
Pages	193-203
Number of pages	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33518-1_24
State	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface, EuroMPI 2012 - Vienna, Austria Duration: Sep 23 2012 → Sep 26 2012

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	7490 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface, EuroMPI 2012
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Vienna
Period	09/23/12 → 09/26/12

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Bland, W., Bouteiller, A., Herault, T., Hursey, J., Bosilca, G., & Dongarra, J. J. (2012). An evaluation of user-level failure mitigation support in MPI. In Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface - 19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2012, Proceedings (pp. 193-203). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 7490 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33518-1_24

Bland, Wesley ; Bouteiller, Aurelien ; Herault, Thomas et al. / An evaluation of user-level failure mitigation support in MPI. Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface - 19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2012, Proceedings. 2012. pp. 193-203 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Bland, W, Bouteiller, A, Herault, T, Hursey, J, Bosilca, G & Dongarra, JJ 2012, An evaluation of user-level failure mitigation support in MPI. in Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface - 19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2012, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 7490 LNCS, pp. 193-203, 19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface, EuroMPI 2012, Vienna, Austria, 09/23/12. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33518-1_24

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