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Fault-Aware Non-Collective Communication Creation and Reparation in MPI
The increasing size of HPC architectures makes the faults' presence a more
and more frequent eventuality. This issue becomes especially relevant since
MPI, the de-facto standard for inter-process communication, lacks proper fault
management functionalities. Past efforts produced extensions to the MPI
standard that enabled fault management, including ULFM. While providing
powerful tools to handle faults, it still faces limitations like the
collectiveness of the repair procedure. With this paper, we overcome those
limitations and achieve fault-aware non-collective communicator creation and
reparation. We integrate our solution into an existing fault resiliency
framework and measure the overhead introduced in the application code. The
experimental campaign shows that our solution is scalable and introduces a
limited overhead, and the non-collective reparation is a viable opportunity for
ULFM-based applications
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