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The next generation of supercomputers will require HPC applications to handle failures. This paper presents, through an example application, the benefits of logging messages at the application level. The proposed method will do both, provide resilience to failures and improve performance.
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This work was partially supported by a machine allocation on Argonne Leadership Computing Facility awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357.
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Meneses, E. (2018). Exploring Application-Level Message-Logging in Scalable HPC Programs. In: Mocskos, E., Nesmachnow, S. (eds) High Performance Computing. CARLA 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 796. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73353-1_17
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