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The STAR Fault Manager for Distributed Environments

Pierre Sens
Bertil Folliot
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This paper presents the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of a software fault manager for distributed applications. Dubbed STAR , it uses the natural redundancy existing in networks of workstations to offer a high level of fault tolerance. Fault management is transparent to the supported parallel applications. To improve the response time of fault-tolerant applications, STAR implements non-blocking and incremental checkpointing to perform an efficient backup of process state. Moreover, STAR is application independent, highly configurable. Star actually runs on top of SunOs and is easily portable to UNIXTM-like operating systems. The current implementation is based on independent checkpointing and message logging. Measurements show the efficiency and the limits of this implementation. The challenge is to show that a software approach to fault tolerance can efficiently be implemented in a standard networked environment.

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hal-01621560 , version 1 (23-10-2017)

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Pierre Sens, Bertil Folliot. The STAR Fault Manager for Distributed Environments. Software Practice and Experience, 1998, 28 (10), ⟨10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(199808)28:10<1079::AID-SPE199>3.0.CO;2-D⟩. ⟨hal-01621560⟩
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