Toward understanding soft faults in high performance cluster networks.

Conference · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2003

OSTI ID:925065

Evans, J J; Baik, S; Hood, C S; Gropp, W

Fault management in high performance cluster networks has been focused on the notion of hard faults (i.e., link or node failures). Network degradations that negatively impact performance but do not result in failures often go unnoticed. In this paper, we classify such degradations as soft faults. In addition, we identify consistent performance as an important requirement in cluster networks. Using this service requirement, we describe a comprehensive strategy for cluster fault management.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 925065
• Report Number(s): ANL/MCS/CP-109498; TRN: US200807%%26
• Resource Relation: Conference: Integrated Network Management : Managing It All; Mar 24-28, 2003; Colorado Springs, CO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: ENGLISH

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
MANAGEMENT
PERFORMANCE
FAILURES
COMPUTER NETWORKS