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Fault-tolerance has always been an important topic when it comes to running massively parallel programs at scale. Statistically, hardware and software failures are expected to occur more often on systems gathering millions of computing…
Taking snapshots of the state of a distributed computation is useful for off-line analysis of the computational state, for later restarting from the saved snapshot, for cloning a copy of the computation, and for migration to a new cluster.…
Transparently checkpointing MPI for fault tolerance and load balancing is a long-standing problem in HPC. The problem has been complicated by the need to provide checkpoint-restart services for all combinations of an MPI implementation over…
InfiniBand is widely used for low-latency, high-throughput cluster computing. Saving the state of the InfiniBand network as part of distributed checkpointing has been a long-standing challenge for researchers. Because of a lack of a…
Faults in high-performance systems are expected to be very large in the current exascale computing era. To compensate for a higher failure rate, the standard checkpoint/restart technique would need to create checkpoints at a much higher…
Fault tolerance for the upcoming exascale generation has long been an area of active research. One of the components of a fault tolerance strategy is checkpointing. Petascale-level checkpointing is demonstrated through a new mechanism for…
This work presents experience with traditional use cases of checkpointing on a novel platform. A single codebase (MANA) transparently checkpoints production workloads for major available MPI implementations: "develop once, run everywhere".…
As we have entered Exascale computing, the faults in high-performance systems are expected to increase considerably. To compensate for a higher failure rate, the standard checkpoint/restart technique would need to create checkpoints at a…
There is new momentum behind an interoperable ABI for MPI, which will be a major component of MPI-5. This capability brings true separation of concerns to a running MPI computation. The linking and compilation of an MPI application becomes…
MPI+threads is gaining prominence as an alternative to the traditional MPI everywhere model in order to better handle the disproportionate increase in the number of cores compared with other on-node resources. However, the communication…
The true costs of high performance computing are currently dominated by software. Addressing these costs requires shifting to high productivity languages such as Matlab. MatlabMPI is a Matlab implementation of the Message Passing Interface…
This system paper documents the technical foundations for the extension of the Topology ToolKit (TTK) to distributed-memory parallelism with the Message Passing Interface (MPI). While several recent papers introduced topology-based…
MANA-2.0 is a scalable, future-proof design for transparent checkpointing of MPI-based computations. Its network transparency ("network-agnostic") feature ensures that MANA-2.0 will provide a viable, efficient mechanism for transparently…
Checkpoint/restart (C/R) provides fault-tolerant computing capability, enables long running applications, and provides scheduling flexibility for computing centers to support diverse workloads with different priority. It is therefore vital…
Recent increased interest in Cloud computing emphasizes the need to find an adequate solution to the load-balancing problem in parallel computing -- efficiently running several jobs concurrently on a cluster of shared computers (nodes). One…
Message Passing Interface (MPI) is widely used to implement parallel programs. Although Windowsbased architectures provide the facilities of parallel execution and multi-threading, little attention has been focused on using MPI on these…
One of the hardest challenges of the current Big Data landscape is the lack of ability to process huge volumes of information in an acceptable time. The goal of this work, is to ascertain if it is useful to use typical Big Data tools to…
The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is the prevalent programming model used on today's supercomputers. Therefore, MPI library developers are looking for the best possible performance (shortest run-time) of individual MPI functions across…
The advent of multi-/many-core processors in clusters advocates hybrid parallel programming, which combines Message Passing Interface (MPI) for inter-node parallelism with a shared memory model for on-node parallelism. Compared to the…
The current trend of multicore architectures on shared memory systems underscores the need of parallelism. While there are some programming model to express parallelism, thread programming model has become a standard to support these system…