MPICH-V: Toward a Scalable Fault Tolerant MPI for Volatile Nodes
George Bosilca, Aurélien Bouteiller, Franck Cappello, S. Djilali, Gilles Fedak, Cécile Germain, Thomas Hérault, Pierre Lemarinier, Oleg Lodygensky, F. Magniette, Vincent Néri, Anton Selikhov · 2002
Global Computing platforms, large scale clusters and future TeraGRID systems gather thousands of nodes for computing parallel scientific applications. At this scale, node failures or disconnections are frequent events. This Volatility reduces the MTBF of the whole system in the range of hours or minutes.