Fault-tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems

Fault-tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems
Title Fault-tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems PDF eBook
Author Dhiraj K. Pradhan
Publisher Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(IEEE)
Total Pages 316
Release 1995
Genre Computers
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Increasingly, large parallel computing systems and networks are providing unique challenges to researchers in dependable computing, especially because of the higher failure rates intrinsic to these bigger systems. While both commercial and scientific companies share the need for massive throughput and low latency, commercial companies have more stringent requirements for dependability. No telecommunications company, retailer, or bank could survive for long with weekly computer failures. Dependability of service is a paramount concern for commercial companies whose business is information. In addition to being continuously available, commercial systems must be free from data corruption. Absolute data integrity must be ensured through complete self-checking and fault isolation. Achieving dependability in highly scalable parallel and distributed systems poses a considerable challenge. As the number of components increases, so does the probability of a component failure. Therefore, a fault-tolerant technology is required in high scalable parallel and distributed systems.

Fault-Tolerant Parallel Computation

Fault-Tolerant Parallel Computation
Title Fault-Tolerant Parallel Computation PDF eBook
Author Paris Christos Kanellakis
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages 203
Release 2013-03-09
Genre Computers
ISBN 1475752105

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Fault-Tolerant Parallel Computation presents recent advances in algorithmic ways of introducing fault-tolerance in multiprocessors under the constraint of preserving efficiency. The difficulty associated with combining fault-tolerance and efficiency is that the two have conflicting means: fault-tolerance is achieved by introducing redundancy, while efficiency is achieved by removing redundancy. This monograph demonstrates how in certain models of parallel computation it is possible to combine efficiency and fault-tolerance and shows how it is possible to develop efficient algorithms without concern for fault-tolerance, and then correctly and efficiently execute these algorithms on parallel machines whose processors are subject to arbitrary dynamic fail-stop errors. The efficient algorithmic approaches to multiprocessor fault-tolerance presented in this monograph make a contribution towards bridging the gap between the abstract models of parallel computation and realizable parallel architectures. Fault-Tolerant Parallel Computation presents the state of the art in algorithmic approaches to fault-tolerance in efficient parallel algorithms. The monograph synthesizes work that was presented in recent symposia and published in refereed journals by the authors and other leading researchers. This is the first text that takes the reader on the grand tour of this new field summarizing major results and identifying hard open problems. This monograph will be of interest to academic and industrial researchers and graduate students working in the areas of fault-tolerance, algorithms and parallel computation and may also be used as a text in a graduate course on parallel algorithmic techniques and fault-tolerance.

Distributed and Parallel Systems

Distributed and Parallel Systems
Title Distributed and Parallel Systems PDF eBook
Author Péter Kacsuk
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages 236
Release 2002-09-30
Genre Computers
ISBN 9781402072093

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"The papers in this volume [from a workshop titled 'Distributed and Parallel Systems' (DAPSYS) 2002] cover a broad range of research topics presented in four groups. The first one introduces cluster tools and techniques, especially the issues of load balancing and migration. Another six papers deal with grid and global computing including grid infrastructure, tools, applications and mobile computing. The next nine papers present general questions of distributed development and applications. The last four papers address a crucial issue in distributed computing: fault tolerance and dependable systems."--Page [ix].

Parallel and Distributed Processing

Parallel and Distributed Processing
Title Parallel and Distributed Processing PDF eBook
Author Jose Rolim
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages 1332
Release 2000-04-19
Genre Computers
ISBN 354067442X

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This volume contains the proceedings from the workshops held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2000, on 1-5 May 2000 in Cancun, Mexico. The workshopsprovidea forum for bringing together researchers,practiti- ers, and designers from various backgrounds to discuss the state of the art in parallelism.Theyfocusondi erentaspectsofparallelism,fromruntimesystems to formal methods, from optics to irregular problems, from biology to networks of personal computers, from embedded systems to programming environments; the following workshops are represented in this volume: { Workshop on Personal Computer Based Networks of Workstations { Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models { Workshop on Par. and Dist. Comp. in Image, Video, and Multimedia { Workshop on High-Level Parallel Prog. Models and Supportive Env. { Workshop on High Performance Data Mining { Workshop on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel { Workshop on Java for Parallel and Distributed Computing { WorkshoponBiologicallyInspiredSolutionsto ParallelProcessingProblems { Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems { Workshop on Embedded HPC Systems and Applications { Recon gurable Architectures Workshop { Workshop on Formal Methods for Parallel Programming { Workshop on Optics and Computer Science { Workshop on Run-Time Systems for Parallel Programming { Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems All papers published in the workshops proceedings were selected by the p- gram committee on the basis of referee reports. Each paper was reviewed by independent referees who judged the papers for originality, quality, and cons- tency with the themes of the workshops.

Communication and Agreement Abstractions for Fault-tolerant Asynchronous Distributed Systems

Communication and Agreement Abstractions for Fault-tolerant Asynchronous Distributed Systems
Title Communication and Agreement Abstractions for Fault-tolerant Asynchronous Distributed Systems PDF eBook
Author Michel Raynal
Publisher Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Total Pages 251
Release 2010
Genre Computers
ISBN 160845293X

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Understanding distributed computing is not an easy task. This is due to the many facets of uncertainty one has to cope with and master in order to produce correct distributed software. Considering the uncertainty created by asynchrony and process crash failures in the context of message-passing systems, the book focuses on the main abstractions that one has to understand and master in order to be able to produce software with guaranteed properties. These fundamental abstractions are communication abstractions that allow the processes to communicate consistently (namely the register abstraction and the reliable broadcast abstraction), and the consensus agreement abstractions that allows them to cooperate despite failures. As they give a precise meaning to the words "communicate" and "agree" despite asynchrony and failures, these abstractions allow distributed programs to be designed with properties that can be stated and proved. Impossibility results are associated with these abstractions. Hence, in order to circumvent these impossibilities, the book relies on the failure detector approach, and, consequently, that approach to fault-tolerance is central to the book. Table of Contents: List of Figures / The Atomic Register Abstraction / Implementing an Atomic Register in a Crash-Prone Asynchronous System / The Uniform Reliable Broadcast Abstraction / Uniform Reliable Broadcast Abstraction Despite Unreliable Channels / The Consensus Abstraction / Consensus Algorithms for Asynchronous Systems Enriched with Various Failure Detectors / Constructing Failure Detectors

Parallel and Distributed Processing

Parallel and Distributed Processing
Title Parallel and Distributed Processing PDF eBook
Author Jose Rolim
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages 1194
Release 1998-03-18
Genre Computers
ISBN 9783540643593

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 10 international workshops held in conjunction with the merged 1998 IPPS/SPDP symposia, held in Orlando, Florida, US in March/April 1998. The volume comprises 118 revised full papers presenting cutting-edge research or work in progress. In accordance with the workshops covered, the papers are organized in topical sections on reconfigurable architectures, run-time systems for parallel programming, biologically inspired solutions to parallel processing problems, randomized parallel computing, solving combinatorial optimization problems in parallel, PC based networks of workstations, fault-tolerant parallel and distributed systems, formal methods for parallel programming, embedded HPC systems and applications, and parallel and distributed real-time systems.

Fault-tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems

Fault-tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems
Title Fault-tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems PDF eBook
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Total Pages 217
Release 1997
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