=ADD= =reftype= 14 =number= 01-13 =url= ftp://ftp.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/pub/techreports/2001/01-13.ps.gz =year= 2001 =month= 05 =author= Schreiner; Wolfgang + Kusper; Gabor + Bosa; Karoly =title= Fault Tolerance for Cluster Computing Based on Functional Tasks =abstract= We have extended the parallel computer algebra system Distributed Maple by fault tolerance mechanisms such that computations are not any more limited by the meantime between failures. This is complicated by the fact that task arguments and results may embed task handles and that the system's scheduling layer has only a little information about the computing layer. Nevertheless, the mostly functional parallel programming model makes it possible with relatively simple means. =note= =howpublished= Euro-Par 2001, European Conference on Parallel Computing, Manchester, UK, August 28 - August 31, 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, 5 pages. =sponsor= Supported by grant SFB F013/F1304 of the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF). =keywords= parallel computing, computer algebra, symbolic computation, functional programming, Distributed Maple, Java.