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Title: Row fault detection system

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1037747

An apparatus, program product and method check 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
DOE Contract Number:
B519700
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Patent Number(s):
8,112,658
Application Number:
12/197,563
OSTI ID:
1037747
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2008 Aug 25
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (3)

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

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