Although I have perhaps the least experience on the topic in this list, I will take a shot; more experienced people, please correct me:
MPI standards specify communication mechanism, not fault tolerance at any level. You may achieve network tolerance at the IP level by implementing 'equal cost multipath' routes (which means two equally capable NIC cards connecting to the same destination and modifying the kernel routing table to use both cards; the kernel will dynamically load balance.). At the MAC level, you can achieve the same effect by trunking multiple network cards. You can achieve process level fault tolerance by a checkpointing scheme such as BLCR, which has been tested to work with OpenMPI (and other processes as well) Durga On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:57 AM, vipin kumar<vipinkuma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I want to know whether open mpi supports Network and process fault tolerance > or not? If there is any example demonstrating these features that will be > best. > > Regards, > -- > Vipin K. > Research Engineer, > C-DOTB, India > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >
