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Row fault detection system

Patent ·
OSTI ID:985358
An apparatus, program product and method checks for nodal faults in a row of nodes by causing each node in the row to concurrently communicate with its adjacent neighbor nodes in the row. The communications are analyzed to determine a presence of a faulty node or connection.
Research Organization:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Patent Number(s):
7,437,595
Application Number:
11/052,660
OSTI ID:
985358
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (3)

Fault-tolerant broadcasting in wormhole-routed torus networks conference January 2002
Fault-tolerant adaptive routing for two-dimensional meshes conference January 1995
Optimization of MPI collective communication on BlueGene/L systems conference January 2005

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