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HPC-SFI: System-level fault injection for high performance computing systems

  • Beihang University

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Abstract

Resilience/fault-tolerance has become a key challenge for large-scale parallel systems. To ensure reliability of high performance computing systems, various kinds of techniques have been proposed, such as hardware-level fault-tolerance, checkpointing, replication, algorithm-base fault-tolerance, etc. There are also many software systems to monitor and handle system-failures, e.g. management and job-scheduling system of HPC systems. To evaluate the effectiveness of these systems, it is necessary to provide some kind of tool to inject failures in a HPC system. This paper proposes HPC-SFI, a system-level fault injection tool for HPC systems. Basically, HPC-SFI can generate three kinds of system-failures in a HPC system including in-node faults, failure in the interconnection network and failure of storage/parallel-file system. In addition, HPC-SFI can inject system-faults in pseudo-random model according to pre-defined parameters and probabilities. Preliminary experimental results demonstrate effectiveness of the tool.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNetwork and Parallel Computing - 15th IFIP WG 10.3 International Conference, NPC 2018, Proceedings
EditorsMarc Snir, Mateo Valero, Feng Zhang, Hironori Kasahara, Jidong Zhai, Hai Jin
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages103-113
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783030056766
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event15th IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, NPC 2018 - Muroran, Japan
Duration: 29 Nov 20181 Dec 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11276 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, NPC 2018
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityMuroran
Period29/11/181/12/18

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