Proactive process-level live migration and back migration in HPC environments

Proactive process-level live migration and back migration in HPC environments

As the number of nodes in high-performance computing environments keeps increasing, faults are becoming common place. Reactive fault tolerance (FT) often does not scale due to massive I/O requirements and relies on manual job resubmission. This work complements reactive with proactive FT at the process level. Through health monitoring, a subset of node failures can be anticipated when one’s hea...

Migration Techniques in HPC Environments

A Versioning Approach to VM Live Migration

In the context of virtual machines live migration, two strategies called “pre-copy” and “post-copy” have already been presented; but each of these strategies works well only in some circumstances. In this paper, we have a brief presentation of QAVNS and then introduce a new approach which is based on the concept of "informational object", assigning QAVNS-scheme-revision number, and observing th...

Live and Heterogeneous Migration of Execution Environments

Application migration and heterogeneity are inherent issues of pervasive systems. Each implementation of a pervasive system must provide its own migration framework which hides heterogeneity of the different resources. This leads to the development of many frameworks that perform the same functionality. We propose a minimal execution environment, the micro virtual machine, that factorizes proce...

Local Robustness: A Process Migration Criterion in HPC Clusters

Cluster computing systems require managing their resources and running processes dynamically in an efficient manner. Preemptive process migration is such a mechanism that tries to improve the overall performance of a cluster system running independent processes. In this paper, we show that blind migration of processes at runtime by such a mechanism does not lead to better performance. Instead, ...