Study on Fault Tolerance for Virtualization-Based Computer Simulation Systems

Abstract:

Modern computer simulation system has developed towards the direction of large-scale and distributed computing pattern. The large-scale simulation applications always deploy over heterogeneous networks across geographically dispersed locations, and the simulation process often lasts for a long time without intermission. The challenge is that various errors cannot be avoided during a long continuous running time in such a broad network environment with a huge number of simulation resources. The problem of simulation fault tolerance has become a hot issue. This paper introduces live migration method to virtualization-based computer simulation system, handling reliability problems, especially fault tolerance issues. The paper presents a framework of simulation fault tolerance. Then the detailed live migration mechanism of run-time simulation is discussed. The method can provide an approach to consolidating the reliable simulation in distributed and long-term simulation applications.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 201-203)
• Pages: 677-680
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.201-203.677
• Online since: February 2011
• Authors: Lei Ren, Yong Liang Luo, Ya Bin Zhang
• Keywords: Computer Simulation System, Fault Tolerance, High Reliable Simulation, Resource Utilization, Virtualisation

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