Overview

 
• Starfish is a highly-available fault-tolerant system for running parallel MPI programs on clusters of workstations/PCs.
• Starfish provides a collection of checkpoint/restart protocols to facilitate fault-tolerance, load balancing, and dynamicity for applications running on top of it
• Starfish is based on the Ensemble group communication system for high-availability
• Starfish is mostly written in OCaml, and is therefore highly portable, although the current version only runs on Linux with either Fast Ethernet or Myrinet
• Starfish uses the BIP drivers for Myrinet to acheive high performance

This system is supported by:

1. The Bar-Nir Bergreen Software Technology Center of Exellence.
2. The Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology (Grant Number 1628-3-01)