Title :
Checkpointing in CosMiC: a user-level process migration environment
Author :
Chung, P. Emerald ; Huang, Yennun ; Yajnik, Shalini ; Fowler, Glenn ; Vo, Kiem-Phong ; Wang, Yi-Min
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Lucent Technol., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Abstract :
The CosMiC system is a user-level process migration environment. Process migration is defined as the mechanism to checkpoint the state of an unfinished process, transfer the state from one machine to another and resume process execution on the new machine. The main purposes of process migration are: (1) to utilize the CPU power and balance load on all machines in an environment; (2) to provide fault-tolerance by migrating a process from a failed machine to another machine
Keywords :
concurrency control; fault tolerant computing; network operating systems; programming environments; CPU power; CosMiC; checkpointing; fault-tolerance; user-level process migration environment; Checkpointing; Computer networks; Computerized monitoring; Equations; File systems; Libraries; Operating systems; Parameter estimation; Resumes; Scientific computing;
Conference_Titel :
Fault-Tolerant Systems, 1997. Proceedings., Pacific Rim International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8212-4
DOI :
10.1109/PRFTS.1997.640146
