Simulating Failures on Large-Scale Systems

—Developing fault management mechanisms is a difficult task because of the unpredictable nature of failures. In this paper, we present a fault simulation framework for Blue Gene/P systems implemented as a part of the Cobalt resource manager. The primary goal of this framework is to support system software development. We also present a hardware diagnostic system that we have implemented using this framework.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ICPPW
• Authors: Narayan Desai, Ewing L. Lusk, Daniel Buettner, Andrew Cherry, Theron Voran
• Keywords: Cobalt Resource Manager, Distributed And Parallel Computing, Fault Management Mechanisms, Fault Simulation Framework, ICPPW 2008