Title :
Performance evaluation of checkpoint/restart techniques: For MPI applications on Amazon cloud
Author :
Azeem, Basma Abdel ; Helal, Manal
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Comput. & Inf. Technol, Arab Acad. for Sci., Cairo, Egypt
Abstract :
Distributed applications running on a large cluster environment, such as the cloud instances will have shorter execution time. However, the application might suffer from sudden termination due to unpredicted computing node failures, thus loosing the whole computation. Checkpoint/restart is a fault tolerance technique used to solve this problem. In this work we evaluated the performance of two of the most commonly used checkpoint/restart techniques (Distributed Multithreaded Checkpointing (DMTCP) and Berkeley Lab Checkpoint/Restart library (BLCR) integrated into the OpenMPI framework). We aimed to test their validity and evaluate their performance in both local and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environments. The experiments were conducted on Amazon EC2 as a well-known proprietary cloud computing service provider. Results obtained were reported and compared to evaluate checkpoint and restart time values, data scalability and compute processes scalability. The findings proved that DMTCP performs better than BLCR for checkpoint and restart speed, data scalability and compute processes scalability experiments.
Keywords :
application program interfaces; checkpointing; cloud computing; message passing; multi-threading; software fault tolerance; software performance evaluation; Amazon EC2; Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud; Amazon cloud; BLCR; Berkeley lab checkpoint/restart library; DMTCP; OpenMPI framework; checkpoint/restart techniques; cluster environment; distributed applications; distributed multithreaded checkpointing; fault tolerance technique; performance evaluation; proprietary cloud computing service provider; Checkpointing; Educational institutions; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Kernel; Libraries; Linux; MPI; amazon EC2; checkpoint/restart; cloud computing; fault tolerance;
Conference_Titel :
Informatics and Systems (INFOS), 2014 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
978-977-403-689-7
DOI :
10.1109/INFOS.2014.7036677