Integrating fault-tolerant feature into TOPAS parallel programming environment for distributed systems

Author

Nguyen, G.T. ; Tran, V.D. ; Kotocova, M.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Informatics, Slovak Acad. of Sci., Bratislava, Slovakia

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

157

Lastpage

162

Abstract

In this paper, TOPAS-a new parallel programming environment for distributed systems-is presented. TOPAS automatically analyzes data dependence among tasks and synchronizes data, which reduces the time needed for parallel program developments. TOPAS also provides supports for scheduling, dynamic load balancing and fault tolerance. Experiments show simplicity and efficiency of parallel programming in TOPAS environment with fault-tolerant integration, which provides graceful performance degradation and quick reconfiguration time for application recovery.

Keywords

distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; parallel programming; programming environments; resource allocation; synchronisation; TOPAS parallel programming environment; application recovery; data dependence; data synchronization; distributed systems; dynamic load balancing; fault-tolerant feature integration; fault-tolerant integration; graceful performance degradation; quick reconfiguration; scheduling; Application software; Data analysis; Degradation; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Hardware; Load management; Parallel programming; Processor scheduling; Software libraries;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering, 2002. PARELEC '02. Proceedings. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1730-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCEE.2002.1115228

Filename

1115228