Sudhanva Gurumurthi
ABSTRACT
The use of highly scaled technologies and large component counts pose significant reliability challenges for large-scale systems. Knowledge of failures that occur in such systems is valuable for driving RAS design decisions for component and system vendors, as well as for the operators of those systems in order to improve resilience. Field studies play a key role in providing insights into the types of failures that occur in real systems, especially at scale. This talk will highlight the value of such studies, discuss implications for future exascale systems, and identify research needs using data from failure analyses of supercomputers and cloud data centers.
Index Terms
- Failures in Large-Scale Systems: Insights from the Field
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