Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA
Abstract :
Migrating applications is necessary to provide fault tolerance in a distributed environment. In this paper, we present a new design that enables the heterogeneous migration of a general class of applications. Our approach can handle applications that use pointers. Our design is tailored for the C programming language, but can be adapted for other languages. We chose the C language because it is more difficult to handle than other languages, especially its pointer operations
Keywords :
C language; distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; C programming language; distributed environment; fault tolerance; heterogeneous migration; pointer operations; portable memory; Application software; Checkpointing; Computer languages; Computer science; Fault tolerance; Image storage; Instruction sets; Java; Magnetic heads; Resumes;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1997., Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Future Trends of
Conference_Location :
Tunis
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8153-5
DOI :
10.1109/FTDCS.1997.644719
