NEWS
11/10/2009 - CIFTS at SC'09
Come visit us at SC! The CIFTS team will be in Portland, Oregon for SuperComputing. We have several activities planned for this year:
- Tuesday, Nov 17th, 12:15-1:15 pm - Room D137-138 - CIFTS BOF
- Tuesday, Nov 17th, 2:00-3:00pm - ANL booth (#644) - CIFTS Demos
- Tuesday, Nov 17th, 3:00-4:30p, - LBNL booth (#723) - Round Table Discussion on Checkpoint/Restart Research
- Tuesday, Nov 17th, 5:15-7:00pm, Oregon Ballroom Lobby - Poster on "FTB-Enabled Failure Prediction for Blue Gene/P Systems"
- Wednesday, Nov 18th, 2:00-3:00pm - ANL booth (#644) - CIFTS Demos
The CIFTS demos this year will present failure scenarios with several FTB-enabled software. This includes FTB-enabled applications like the Integrated Plasma Simulator, the FTB-enabled FT-LA library, FTB-enabled MPICH2 library, FTB-enabled MVAPICH library, FTB-enabled Open MPI, Log Monitoring using FTB on Cray etc. Click here to download the CIFTS Supercomputing'09 flier.
11/10/2009 FTB-enabled MVAPICH2 1.4 NOW AVAILABLE
MVAPICH2 1.4 from Ohio State University is now FTB-enabled! More information on this can be found at the OSU FTB website. A list of FTB events publishable by MVAPICH2 1.4 can be found here
09/14/2009 - FTB 0.6.1 Now Available
The CIFTS team is pleased to announce the
release of FTB Version 0.6.1, based on the FTB
0.5 API. This release is supported on IBM
BG/P, Cray XT and the Linux (Ubuntu 9.04) systems.
The ftb-0.6.1 software is
available for download here.
We welcome your feedback and comments. We look
forward to working with the community to develop
FTB-enabled software for improving the reliability
of large-scale systems.
08/12/2009 - CIFTS BOF at Supercomputing 2009
Following the success of the Birds-of-Feather sessions held at Supercomputing conference for the last two years, we will again be holding a CIFTS BOF at the SC'09 conference. SC'09 will be held in Portland, Oregon this year at the "Oregon Convention Center". The CIFTS BOF is scheduled on on Tuesday, Nov 17th from 12:15PM - 1:15PM in room D137-138. Time to mark your calendars!
05/21/2009 - CIFTS publication at ICPP 2009
The publication "CIFTS: A Coordinated infrastructure for Fault-Tolerant Systems", which details the CIFTS framework and Fault Tolerance Backplane architecture, will be published in the Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2009) to be held in Vienna, Austria from September 22-25, 2009. The paper can be downloaded here
1/16/09 - Berkeley Lab Checkpoint/Restart Software v0.8.0 is FTB-enabled
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's popular Checkpoint/Restart Software BLCR (version 0.8.0) is now FTB-Enabled. Users can download this software from the BLCR website. Please refer to README.FTB (packaged in the software) for more information on how to install this software and the fault events it supports with the Fault Tolerance Backplane(FTB).
11/10/08 - FTB-enabled InfiniBand Monitoring Software Release 1.0 now available
Ohio State University's Network-based
Computing Laboratory is pleased to announce
the release of the first version of the
FTB-Enabled InfiniBand Monitoring
Software. This
software currently supports FTB version 0.6. The
FTB-InfiniBand software uses the FTB Infrastructure
to notify other FTB enabled components about
failures in the InfiniBand network.
You can download the software from the
CIFTS Software page or from the NOWLAB
FTB-InfiniBand website.
11/04/08 - CIFTS at Supercomputing 2008!
It's that time again! CIFTS has several events going on thru the
conference. Here is a short listing of the activities.
Tuesday Nov 18th, 12:15-1:15 PM - BallRoom G - CIFTS BOF
Tuesday Nov 18th, 2:00-3:00 PM - ANL(558) - CIFTS Demos
Tuesday Nov 18th, 1:30-3:00 PM - LBNL(540) - Checkpoint/Restart Round Table Discussion
Tuesday Nov 18th, 5:15-7:00 PM - Rotunda Lobby - Poster Presentation on 'Analyzing Failure Events on ORNLs Cray XT4'
Wednesday Nov 19th, 2:00-3:00 PM - ANL(558) - CIFTS Demos
Click here
to download the CIFTS Supercomputing'08 Flyer.
Be sure to drop by and check us out. See you in Austin!
09/04/08 - FTB Release 0.6 now available
The first release of FTB - named FTB version
0.6 is now publically available. This release
has support for Linux(Ubuntu Fiesty, Hardy) clusters, IBM BG/L,
IBM BG/P and Cray XT4. This release also provides
the FTB API (version 0.5), which can be used by
developers to write FTB-Enabled software.
The FTB software can be downloaded from here
The FTB API can be found in the FTB
source code. It can also be found here.
08/20/08 -SuperComputing 2008 news
We will be having a CIFTS BOF at SC'08 on Tuesday, November 18th from 12:15PM - 1:15PM.
In addition, we will be having a set of presentations and demos to update the community on the progess with CIFTS and FTB. Schedule will be made available on this website in the coming weeks.
07/29/08 - News Update
Firstly, apologies for being slow on the news front. But we've got good news :-). We have done porting our CIFTS FTB code to the new IBM BG/P at ANL. Right now, we are gearing for the FTB API public release as well as the code release by end-of-August 2008. Stay tuned for more exciting details.
11/27/07 - Thank you!
Thank you everyone for the great feedback at SC'07. We are working on incorporating some of the feedback received into our FTB design and implementation. We are aiming for a public release of our software in mid-2008. Stay tuned. Meanwhile, you can get updates on our activities on our CIFTS wiki at http://wiki.mcs.anl.gov/cifts/index.php
11/01/07 - CIFTS at SC'07
The CIFTS team will be organizing various demos, talks and a Birds-of-feather at SC'07.
- Tuesday Nov 13th, 1:30-2.00 pm - ANL(551) - Presentation talk on CIFTS
- Tuesday Nov 13th, 2:00-3:00 pm - ANL(551) - CIFTS Demos
- Wednesday Nov 14th, 10:00-11:00 am - LBNL(351) - Presentation talk on CIFTS and BLCR
- Wednesday Nov 14th, 12:15-1:15 pm - Room A3/A4 - CIFTS BOF
- Wednesday Nov 14th, 2:00-3:00 pm - ANL(551) - CIFTS Demos
- Thursday Nov 15th, 2:00-3:00 pm - ANL(551) - CIFTS Demos
10/25/07 - CIFTS Demos at SC'07
The CIFTS team will be organizing various demos at SC'07. These demos will demonstrate the following
- FTB-Enabled MPICH2 with FTB-Enabled Cobalt,
- FTB-Enabled Molecular Dynamics application and
- FTB-Enabled InfiniBand network monitoring
Stay tuned for more information on the demo schedule.
09/15/07 - CIFTS Birds-of-Feather (Bof) at Supercomputing'07
We will be having a CIFTS BOF at SC'07 on
November 14, 2007 (Wednesday) at 12:15PM -
1:15PM in Room #:A3/A4
We hope to have an open discussion about
the usefulness, impact, and adoption of a
comprehensive fault-tolerance framework like
CIFTS in enterprise and research environments. We
also hope to interact with your folks to better
understand fault management and fault-tolerance
challenges being faced in todays environment.