Title :
Handling single node failures using agents in computer clusters
Author :
Varghese, Blesson ; McKee, Gerard ; Alexandrov, Vassil
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Syst. Eng., Univ. of Reading, Reading, UK
Abstract :
The work reported in this paper is motivated towards handling single node failures for parallel summation algorithms in computer clusters. An agent based approach is proposed in which a task to be executed is decomposed to sub-tasks and mapped onto agents that traverse computing nodes. The agents intercommunicate across computing nodes to share information during the event of a predicted node failure. Two single node failure scenarios are considered. The Message Passing Interface is employed for implementing the proposed approach. Quantitative results obtained from experiments reveal that the agent based approach can handle failures more efficiently than traditional failure handling approaches.
Keywords :
failure analysis; message passing; multi-agent systems; parallel algorithms; pattern clustering; statistical analysis; computer cluster agent; information sharing; message passing interface; parallel summation algorithms; predicted node failure; single node failure handling; subtask decomposition; traverse computing nodes; Checkpointing; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Hardware; Message passing; Middleware; Parallel processing; Agent-based failure handling; Cluster computing; Failure handling; Message Passing Interface; Single node failure;
Conference_Titel :
Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), 2010 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Ottawa, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-56555-340-8