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Seismic processing applications are used to identify geological structures where reservoirs of oil and gas may be found. With oil companies seeking better precision over larger geographical regions, these applications require larger clusters to keep execution times reasonable. The combination of longer run times and clusters with greater numbers of components increases the probability of faults during the execution. To address this issue, this paper describes an application-level fault tolerance mechanism that considers node crashes and communication link failures. For this industrial application, experiments show that continued execution with the remaining resources is both feasible and efficient.
Supported by PRONEX E-26/110.552/2010, CNPq, FAPERJ, PETROBRAS.
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Gonçalves, A., Bersot, M., Bulcão, A., Boeres, C., Drummond, L., Rebello, V. (2011). Fault Tolerance in an Industrial Seismic Processing Application for Multicore Clusters. In: Cotronis, Y., Danalis, A., Nikolopoulos, D.S., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface. EuroMPI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6960. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24449-0_30
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