The Failure Trace Archive (FTA) is centralized public repository of availability traces of parallel and distributed systems, and tools for their analysis. The purpose of this archive is to facilitate the design, validation, and comparison of fault-tolerant models and algorithms.
In particular, the FTA contains the following:
- availability traces of parallel and distributed systems, differing in scale, volatility, and usage
- a standard format for failure traces
- scripts and tools for analyzing these traces