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Resilience Issues for Application Workflows on Clouds

Authors:
Toan Nguyen
Jean-Antoine Desideri

Keywords: workflows-fault-tolerance; resilience; simulation; cloud computing; high-performance computing.

Abstract:
Two areas are currently the focus of active research, namely cloud computing and high-performance computing. Their expected impact on business and scientific computing is such that most application areas are eagerly uptaking or waiting for the associated infrastructures. However, open issues still remain. Resilience and load- balancing are examples of such areas where innovative solutions are required to face new or increasing challenges, e.g., fault-tolerance. This paper presents existing concepts and open issues related to the design, implementation and deployment of a fault-tolerant application framework on cloud computing platforms. Experiments are sketched including the support for application resilience, i.e., fault- tolerance and exception-handling. They also support the transparent execution of distributed codes on remote high- performance clusters.

Pages: 35 to 42

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: March 25, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4006

ISBN: 978-1-61208-186-1

Location: St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles

Dates: from March 25, 2012 to March 30, 2012