Analytical analysis of reliability for executing remote programs on idling workstations

Author

Zhang, Chong ; Yang, Cui-Qing

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Texas Univ., Denton, TX, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

21-23 Mar 1990

Firstpage

10

Lastpage

16

Abstract

A discussion is presented of two control policies of workstation-based distributed systems that support fault-tolerant execution of remote jobs on idling workstations: checkpointing and noncheckpointing. An analytical analysis of the reliability and mean turnaround time of the execution of remote jobs is conducted for both control policies. In addition, the optimal time interval of checkpoints in the checkpointing policy is formulated on the basis of the given reliability and overhead of the system. Some observations on fault-tolerant features of each policy derived from the analysis are presented

Keywords

distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; checkpointing; executing remote programs; fault-tolerant execution; idling workstations; noncheckpointing; optimal time interval; reliability analysis; workstation-based distributed systems; Checkpointing; Control systems; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Hardware; Job design; Joining processes; Maintenance; Pattern analysis; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1990. Conference Proceedings., Ninth Annual International Phoenix Conference on

Conference_Location

Scottsdale, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2030-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.1990.101594

Filename

101594