Title :
Group membership and wide-area master-worker computations
Author :
Jacobsen, Kjetil ; Zhang, Xianan ; Marzullo, Keith
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Tromso Univ., Norway
Abstract :
Group communications systems have been designed to provide an infrastructure for fault-tolerance in distributed systems, including wide-area systems. In our work on master-worker computation for GriPhyN, which is a large project in the area of the computational grid, we asked the question should we build our wide-area master-worker computation using wide-area group communications? This paper explains why we decided doing so was not a good idea.
Keywords :
client-server systems; fault tolerance; grid computing; wide area networks; computational grid; distributed systems; fault-tolerance; group communications system; master-worker computation; wide area systems; Computer networks; Computer science; Context; Distributed computing; Fault tolerant systems; Grid computing; Jacobian matrices; Local area networks; Protocols; Scalability;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 2003. Proceedings. 23rd International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1920-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICDCS.2003.1203508
