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In grid environments, with the large number of components (both hardware and software) that are involved in application execution, the overall probability that at least one of these components is (temporarily) non-functional is increasing rapidly. In traditional operating systems, such failures are flagged as fatal and the application will be stopped, relying on a re-start after the problem will have been fixed. In a large grid system, this is not a feasible approach as failures happen too frequently while error diagnostics might not be possible at all.
This scenario is asking for a different approach to application execution, where detection and circumvention of error conditions become an integral part. We present a service that is keeping track of an application’s life cycle, from submission by the user to successful completion of its execution. In a case study, we describe how GRID superscalar, a grid application programming environment, can benefit from our service.
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Krępska, E., Kielmann, T., Sirvent, R., Badia, R.M. (2008). A Service for Reliable Execution of Grid Applications. In: Gorlatch, S., Bubak, M., Priol, T. (eds) Achievements in European Research on Grid Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72812-4_14
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