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Using Resource Use Data and System Logs for HPC System Error Propagation and Recovery Diagnosis |
Abstract | ||
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Analyzing failures is important for the reliability of HPC systems and failure diagnosis based only on system logs is incomplete. Resource use data - made available recently - is another potential source of data for failure analysis. Recent work that combines analysis of system logs with resource use data show promising results. In this paper, we describe a new workflow for combining system resource usage and failure logs for diagnosis. The workflow - called EXERMEST - identifies significant system counters and events then correlates them to failures and recovery. We apply EXERMEST on the Ranger HPC system cluster log-data and show that it improves diagnosis over previous research. EXERMEST: (i) show that more system counters and errors can be identified only by applying more feature extractors, (ii) identify CPU I/O bottlenecks and Lustre client eviction, (iii) identify network packet drops and Lustre I/O errors, (iv) identify virtual memory and harddisk I/O errors, (v) show that time-bins of different granularities are required for identifying the errors. EXERMEST is available on the public domain for supporting system administrators in failure diagnosis. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1109/ISPA-BDCloud-SustainCom-SocialCom48970.2019.00072 | 2019 IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel & Distributed Processing with Applications, Big Data & Cloud Computing, Sustainable Computing & Communications, Social Computing & Networking (ISPA/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainCom) |
Keywords | DocType | ISBN |
HPC,Feature extraction,Correlation,Error propagation and recovery,Resource use data and system logs | Conference | 978-1-7281-4329-3 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 0 |
Authors | ||
7 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Edward Chuah | 1 | 34 | 5.04 |
Arshad Jhumka | 2 | 1 | 5.42 |
Samantha Alt | 3 | 0 | 2.03 |
Juan J. Villalobos | 4 | 0 | 2.03 |
Joshua Fryman | 5 | 0 | 0.34 |
William Barth | 6 | 0 | 0.34 |
Manish Parashar | 7 | 3876 | 343.30 |