Part I: General Overview

Fault-Tolerance Techniques for High-Performance Computing
Jack Dongarra, Thomas Herault and Yves Robert

Part II: Technical Contributions

Errors and Faults
Ana Gainaru and Franck Cappello

Fault-Tolerant MPI
Aurelien Bouteiller

Using Replication for Resilience on Exascale Systems
Henri Casanova, Frédéric Vivien and Dounia Zaidouni

Energy-Aware Checkpointing Strategies
Guillaume Aupy, Anne Benoit, Mohammed El Mehdi Diouri, Olivier Glück and Laurent Lefèvre

This timely text presents a comprehensive overview of fault tolerance techniques for high-performance computing (HPC). The text opens with a detailed introduction to the concepts of checkpoint protocols and scheduling algorithms, prediction, replication, silent error detection and correction, together with some application-specific techniques such as ABFT. Emphasis is placed on analytical performance models. This is then followed by a review of general-purpose techniques, including several checkpoint and rollback recovery protocols. Relevant execution scenarios are also evaluated and compared through quantitative models. Features: provides a survey of resilience methods and performance models; examines the various sources for errors and faults in large-scale systems; reviews the spectrum of techniques that can be applied to design a fault-tolerant MPI; investigates different approaches to replication; discusses the challenge of energy consumption of fault-tolerance methods in extreme-scale systems.