Title
Collaborative Fault Diagnosis in Grids through Automated Tests
Abstract
Grids have the potential to revolutionize computing by providing ubiquitous, on demand access to computational services and resources. However, grid systems are extremely large, complex and prone to failures. A survey we've conducted reveals that fault diagnosis is still a major problem for grid users. When a failure appears at the user screen, it becomes very difficult for the user to identify whether the problem is in his application, somewhere in the grid middleware, or even lower in the fabric that comprises the grid. To overcome this problem, we argue that current grid platforms must be augmented with a collaborative diagnosis mechanism. We propose for such mechanism to use automated tests to identify the root cause of a failure and propose the appropriate fix. We also present a Java-based implementation of the proposed mechanism, which provides a simple and flexible framework that eases the development and maintenance of the automated tests.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/AINA.2006.127
AINA (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
automated tests.,grid middleware,grid user,grid computing,collaborative fault diagnosis,user screen,failure management,current grid platform,fault treatment,fault diagnosis,automated tests,major problem,automated test,grid system,collaborative diagnosis mechanism,proposed mechanism,pervasive computing,middleware,computational complexity,java,parallel processing,collaboration,ubiquitous computing
Middleware,Grid computing,Computer science,Ubiquitous computing,Grid system,Root cause,Java,Grid,Computational complexity theory,Distributed computing,Embedded system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2466-4-01
7
0.68
References 
Authors
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexandre Duarte1524.96
Francisco Brasileiro238827.99
Cirne, Walfredo3139580.29
Jose Alencar Filho470.68