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Fault Tolerance

Fault Tolerance

Valentin Cristea, Ciprian Dobre, Corina Stratan, Florin Pop
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 26
ISBN13: 9781615207039|ISBN10: 1615207031|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616923150|EISBN13: 9781615207046
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-703-9.ch008
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Valentin Cristea, et al. "Fault Tolerance." Large-Scale Distributed Computing and Applications: Models and Trends, IGI Global, 2010, pp.168-193. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-703-9.ch008

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V. Cristea, C. Dobre, C. Stratan, F. Pop , & A. Costan (2010). Fault Tolerance. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-703-9.ch008

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Valentin Cristea, et al. "Fault Tolerance." In Large-Scale Distributed Computing and Applications: Models and Trends. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-703-9.ch008

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Abstract

The domains of usage of large scale distributed systems have been extending during the past years from scientific to commercial applications. Together with the extension of the application domains, new requirements have emerged for large scale distributed systems. Among these requirements, fault tolerance is needed by more and more modern distributed applications, not only by the critical ones. In this chapter we analyze current existing work in enabling fault tolerance in case of large scale distributed systems, presenting specific problem, existing solution, as well as several future trends. The characteristics of these systems pose problems to ensuring fault tolerance especially because of their complexity, involving many resources and users geographically distributed, because of the volatility of resources that are available only for limited amounts of time, and because of the constraints imposed by the applications and resource owners. A general fault tolerant architecture should, at a minimum, be comprised of at least a mechanism to detect failures and a component capable to recover and handle the detected failures, usually using some form of a replication mechanism. In this chapter we analyzed existing fault tolerance implementations, as well as solutions adopted in real world large scale distributed systems. We analyzed the fault tolerance architectures being proposed for particular distributed architectures, such as Grid or P2P systems.

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