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Implementation of Fault-Tolerant GridRPC Applications

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A task parallel application is implemented with Ninf-G, a GridRPC system. A series of experiments are conducted on the Grid testbed in Asia Pacific for three months. Through tens of long executions, typical fault patterns were collected, and instability of the network throughput was determined to be a major reason of the faults. Several important points are stressed to avoid task throughput decline due to the fault-recovery operations: Timeout minimization for fault detection, background recovery, redundant task assignments, and so on. This study also issues a steer for design of the automated fault-tolerant mechanism in an upper layer of the GridRPC framework.

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  1. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan

    Yusuke Tanimura, Tsutomu Ikegami, Hidemoto Nakada, Yoshio Tanaka & Satoshi Sekiguchi

  2. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Hidemoto Nakada

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Tanimura, Y., Ikegami, T., Nakada, H. et al. Implementation of Fault-Tolerant GridRPC Applications. J Grid Computing 4, 145–157 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-006-9044-6

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