Group Membership and Wide-Area Master-Worker Computations

Group communications systems have been designed to provide an infrastructure for fault-tolerance in distributed systems, including wide-area systems. In our work on master-worker computation for GriPhyN, which is a large project in the area of the computational grid, we asked the question should we build our wide-area master-worker computation using widearea group communications? This paper explains why we decided doing so was not a good idea.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ICDCS
• Authors: Kjetil Jacobsen, Xianan Zhang, Keith Marzullo
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, Group Communications, Group Communications Systems, ICDCS 2003, Master-worker Computation