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TH-MPI: OS Kernel Integrated Fault Tolerant MPI

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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 2001)

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Consisting of large numbers of computing nodes, parallel cluster systems have high risks of individual node failure. To overcome the high overhead drawbacks of current fault tolerant MPI systems, this paper presents TH-MPI for parallel cluster systems. Being integrated into Linux kernel, TH-MPI is implemented in a more effective, transparent and extensive way. With supports of dynamic kernel module and diskless checkpointing technologies, our experiment shows that checkpointing in TH-MPI is effectively optimized.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Bei Jing, P.R. China

    Yu Chen, Qian Fang, Zhihui Du & Sanli Li

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  1. Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 157 84, Greece

    Yiannis Cotronis

  2. Innovative Computing Lab., Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, 1122 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN, 37996-3450, USA

    Jack Dongarra

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Chen, Y., Fang, Q., Du, Z., Li, S. (2001). TH-MPI: OS Kernel Integrated Fault Tolerant MPI. In: Cotronis, Y., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45417-9_15

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