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A decentralized fault tolerance model based on level of performance for grid environment

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Computational grids have the potential for solving large-scale scientific problems using heterogeneous and geographically distributed resources. At this scale, computer resources and network failures are no more exceptions, but belong to the normal system behavior. Therefore, one of the most valuable characteristics of grid tools, apart from the performance they can achieve, is fault tolerance, which is a significant and complex issue in grid computing systems. In this paper, we propose a fault tolerant model for grid computing systems namely DCFT. This model is based on dynamic colored graphs without replication of computer resources. The proposed faut tolerance model consists of two stages. In the first stage, each node is described by a state vector. We color each attribute of the state vector as three colors (green, blue and red) based on its level of performance. In the second stage, we classify the nodes of a grid into three categories: the identical computer resources in term of performance, the more efficient ones and the less efficient ones. We used the colors of the nodes to develop a new strategy for fault tolerance based on the level of performance. A simulation of the proposed model using SimGrid simulator and Graphstream is conducted. Experimental results show that the proposed model performs very well in a large grid environment.

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Computer Science Department, University of Sciences and Technology, Mohamed Boudiaf USTO-MB, Oran, Algeria

    Mohammed Rebbah

  2. Computer Science Department, ISAMM Institute of Manouba, Oued Ellil, Tunisia

    Yahya Slimani

  3. University of Sciences and Technology of Oran - Mohammed BOUDIAF, Oran, Algeria

    Abdelkader Benyettou

  4. INSA Lyon, LIRIS Laboratory, UMR5205, 69621, Villeurbanne Cedex, France

    Lionel Brunie

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Rebbah, M., Slimani, Y., Benyettou, A. et al. A decentralized fault tolerance model based on level of performance for grid environment. Cluster Comput 19, 13–27 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-015-0497-x

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