A survey of recoverable distributed shared virtual memory systems

Author

Morin, Christine ; Puaut, Isabelle

Author_Institution

Campus Univ. de Beaulieu, INRIA, Rennes, France

Volume

8

Issue

9

fYear

1997

fDate

9/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

959

Lastpage

969

Abstract

Distributed Shared Virtual Memory (DSVM) systems provide a shared memory abstraction on distributed memory architectures. Such systems ease parallel application programming because the shared-memory programming model is often more natural than the message-passing paradigm. However, the probability of failure of a DSVM increases with the number of sites. Thus, fault tolerance mechanisms must be implemented in order to allow processes to continue their execution in the event of a failure. This paper gives an overview of recoverable DSVMs (RDSVMs) that provide a checkpointing mechanism to restart parallel computations in the event of a site failure

Keywords

distributed memory systems; fault tolerant computing; memory architecture; shared memory systems; system recovery; virtual storage; checkpointing mechanism; distributed memory architectures; fault tolerance mechanisms; message-passing paradigm; parallel computations; recoverable distributed shared virtual memory systems; shared memory abstraction; shared-memory programming model; site failure; Bit error rate; Checkpointing; Concurrent computing; Fault tolerance; Hardware; Memory architecture; Parallel programming; Programming profession; Read-write memory; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1045-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/71.615441

Filename

615441