Program
Annual IEEE Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems, April 19, 2002
Held in conjunction with the
April 15-19, 2002
Marriott Marina, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
Theme
Increasingly large parallel computing systems provide unique challenges to
the researchers in dependable computing, especially because of the high
failure rates intrinsic to these systems. While commercial and scientific
companies share the need for massive throughput and low latency,
dependability of service is also a concern.
In addition to providing uninterrupted service, commercial systems must be
free from data corruption. Achieving dependability in highly scalable parallel
and distributed systems poses a considerable challenge.
As the number of components increases, so does the probability of a component
failure. Therefore, improved fault-tolerant technology is required for high
scalable parallel and distributed systems.
The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and
practitioners to discuss issues related to these issues of fault-tolerant
parallel and distributed systems. All aspects
of design, theory and realization of parallel and distributed systems are of
interest.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Dependable distributed systems
- Fault-tolerant protocols for distributed systems
- Fault tolerance in clusters of workstations and PCs
- Fault-tolerant interconnection networks
- Fault-tolerant parallel programming
- Using COTS for designing dependable network based computing systems
- Portable checkpointing for heterogeneous distributed systems
- Fault injection in parallel and distributed systems
- Dependability evaluation of fault-tolerant parallel and distributed systems
- Dependable Biocomputing
- Dependable Quantum Computing
Program Committee:
Chair:
D. Avresky, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
J. Bruck, Caltech, USA
B. Ciciani, University of Roma, Italy
D. Culler, University of California Berkley, USA
C. Fetzer, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
J. Hayes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
H. Hellwagner, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
T. Katayama, AIST, Japan
H. Levendel, Motorola, USA
Q. Li, Santa Clara University, USA
F. Lombardi, Northeastern University, USA
E. Maehle, University of Lubeck, Germany
P. Mehra, Compaq Tandem Labs, USA
C. Petitpierre, EPFL, Switzerland
D. Powell, LAAS-CNRS, France
M. Raynal, IRISA, France
J. Sifakis, UMR Verimag, France
The workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Techical Committee
on Parallel Processing. For further information, please contact the Program
Chair:
Program
Opening: 8.15am-8.30am
Session: Invited talks and speakers
1. "Availability Requirement fro a Fault Management Server in
High-Availability Communication Systems"
8.30am-9.15am
Invited talk : H. Sun, J. Han and H. Levendel
2."From Experimental Assessment of Fault-Tolerant Systems to Dependability
Benchmarking"
9.15am- 10.00am
Invited speaker : J. Arlat, CNRS, LAAS, Toulouse, France
Coffee break: 10.00am -10.30am
3. "Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers"
10.30am - 11.15am
Invited speaker : John P. Hayes,
Advanced Computer Architecture Laboratory,
Dept. of EE & CS, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, USA
Session 1
4. Fault Tolerance in the Network Storage Stack
11.15am -11.45am
S. Atchley, S. Soltesz, J. Plank, M. Beck and T. Moore,
Univ. of Tennessee, TN, USA
5. Protocols for Fault-tolerant Distributed-Shared-Memory
on the SOME-Bus Multiprocessor Architecture
11.45am-12.15pm
D. Hecht and C. Katsinis,
Drexel University, USA
Lunch Break 12.15pm-2.00pm
Session 2
6. Optimizing the Reliability of Component-Based n-Version Approaches
2.00pm -2.30 pm
K.E. Grosspietch,
FIAIS, Germany
7. A Generalized Analytical Performance Model of Distributed Systems
That Perform N Tasks Using P Faul-Prone Processors
2.30pm - 3.00pm
G. Weerasighe, I. Antonious and L. Lipsky,
UCONN, Connecticut, USA
8 . Hardware-Software Co-Reliability in Field Reconfigurable
Multi-Processor-Memory Systems
3.00pm-3.30pm
M. Choi, N. Park and F Lombardi,
NEU, Boston, USA
Coffee break: 3.30pm -4.00pm
Session 3
9. A distributed Primary-Segmented Backup Scheme for Dependable
Real-Time Communication in Multihop Networks
4.00pm-4.30pm
G. Ranjith, G.P. Krishna and C. S. Murthy,
IIT, Madras, India
10. The Viator Approach : About Four Principals of Autopoietic
Growth on the Way to future Hyperactive Network Architectures
4.30pm-5.00pm
P. Simeonov,
TUI, Illmenau, Germany
11. Checking a Non-Byzantine FT Scheme Against Byzantine Faults
5.00pm -5.30pm
P. Sobe
MUL, ICE, Lubeck,
Germany
12. Survivable Computer Networks in the Presence of Partitioning
5.30pm-6.00pm
Y. Varoglu and D.R. Avresky
Network Computing Lab,
ECE, NEU, Boston, USA
Closing remarks: 6.00pm-6.15pm