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Error Models and Fault-Secure Scheduling in Multiprocessor Systems

Koji HASHIMOTO, Tatsuhiro TSUCHIYA, Tohru KIKUNO

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A schedule for a parallel program is said to be 1-fault-secure if a system that uses the schedule can either produce correct output for the program or detect the presence of any faults in a single processor. Although several fault-secure scheduling algorithms have been proposed, they can all only be applied to a class of tree-structured task graphs with a uniform computation cost. Besides, they assume a stringent error model, called the redeemable error model, that considers extremely unlikely cases. In this paper, we first propose two new plausible error models which restrict the manner of error propagation. Then we present three fault-secure scheduling algorithms, one for each of the three models. Unlike previous algorithms, the proposed algorithms can deal with any task graphs with arbitrary computation and communication costs. Through experiments, we evaluate these algorithms and study the impact of the error models on the lengths of fault-secure schedules.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E84-D No.5 pp.635-650
Publication Date
2001/05/01
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Category
Fault Tolerance

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