Research Group SA-4a• Partners: INRIA, UCO• Task (JPA 03): 4.4 Fault-Tolerance and Robustness• Topic: Fault-Injection and Robustness Assessment for Grid Services • Main Responsible: Sebastien Tixeuil (INRIA)• Scientific contents:

– Fault-injection tool for Grid Applications– Stress-test tool for Grid services– Experimental evaluation– Input to the design of Fault-tolerant mechanisms on Grid– Predictive models for failure handling

• Possible Papers:– 1 paper to DSN 2007 or SRDS 2007

• Potential Short visits:– 2 visits, one in each direction

RG - UOC and ZIB

• Papers - old:– Artur Andrzejak, Patricio Domingues, Luis Moura Silva,Artur Andrzejak, Patricio Domingues, Luis Moura Silva, Classifier-Based

Capacity Prediction for Desktop Grids (presented at Pisa IW)– Artur Andrzejak, Patricio Domingues, Luis Moura Silva,Artur Andrzejak, Patricio Domingues, Luis Moura Silva, Predicting

Machine Availabilities in Desktop Pools (NOMS 2006)

• Papers - new: Artur Andrzejak, Luis Moura Silva,Artur Andrzejak, Luis Moura Silva, Deterministic Models of Software Deterministic Models of Software

Aging and Optimal Rejuvenation SchedulesAging and Optimal Rejuvenation Schedules

10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2007)Management (IM 2007)

also CoreGRID Technical Report 047also CoreGRID Technical Report 047

work in progress on a paper for ICAC 2007 (UCO, ZIB, and Jordi work in progress on a paper for ICAC 2007 (UCO, ZIB, and Jordi Torres, UPC)Torres, UPC)

RG - UOC and ZIB

• Research Exchange Programme: – Artur Andrzejak visited UCO in April 2006 for

3.5 weeks

• Fellowship– The new fellow Junjie Peng (starting March

1st 2007) will partially work on this topic