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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2007
David L. Darrington, Rochester, MN (US);
Patrick Joseph Mccarthy, Rochester, MN (US);
Amanda Peters, Rochester, MN (US);
Albert Sidelnik, St. Paul, MN (US);
David L. Darrington, Rochester, MN (US);
Patrick Joseph McCarthy, Rochester, MN (US);
Amanda Peters, Rochester, MN (US);
Albert Sidelnik, St. Paul, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for fault recovery of on a parallel computer system from a soft failure without ending an executing job on a partition of nodes. In preferred embodiments a failed hardware recovery mechanism on a service node uses a heartbeat monitor to determine when a node failure occurs. Where possible, the failed node is reset and re-loaded with software without ending the software job being executed by the partition containing the failed node.