Distributed Troubleshooting Agents

Key issues to address in autonomic job recovery for cluster computing are recognizing job failure; understanding the failure sufficiently to know if and how to restart the job; and rapidly integrating this information into the cluster architecture so that the failure is better mitigated in the future. The Agent Based High Availability (ABHA) system provides an API and a collection of services for building autonomic batch job recovery into cluster and grid computing environments. An agent API allows users to define agents for failure diagnosis and recovery. It is currently being evaluated in the U.S. Department of Energy's STAR project.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICAC
• Authors: Charles Earl, Emilio Remolina, Jim Ong, John Brown
• Keywords: Autonomic Batch Job, Autonomic Computing, Autonomic Job Recovery, ICAC 2005, Job Failure