SURVEY ON FAULT TOLERANCE IN GRID COMPUTING

Abstract

Grid computing is defined as a hardware and software infrastructure that enables coordinated resource sharing within dynamic organizations. In grid computing, the probability of a failure is much greater than in traditional parallel computing. Therefore, the fault tolerance is an important property in order to achieve reliability, availability and QOS. In this paper, we give a survey on various fault tolerance techniques, fault management in different systems and related issues. A fault tolerance service deals with various types of resource failures, which include process failure, processor failure and network failures. This survey provides the related research results about fault tolerance in distinct functional areas of grid infrastructure and also gave the future directions about fault tolerance techniques, and it is a good reference for researcher.