Specification of Fenix MPI Fault Tolerance library (V. 1.0)

Technical Report · Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1562402· OSTI ID:1562402

Gamble, Marc ^[1]; Van Der Wijngaart, Rob ^[2]; Teranishi, Keita ^[3]; Parashar, Manish ^[1]

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1. Rutgers University, NJ (United States)
2. Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (United States)
3. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

This document provides a specification of Fenix, a software library compatible with the Message Passing Interface (MPI) to support fault recovery without application shutdown. The library consists of two modules. The first, termed process recovery , restores an application to a consistent state after it has suffered a loss of one or more MPI processes (ranks). The second specifies functions the user can invoke to store application data in Fenix managed redundant storage, and to retrieve it from that storage after process recovery.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1562402
• Report Number(s): SAND-2016-9171; 647459
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English