Checkpointing multicomputer applications

Author

Li, Kai ; Naughton, J.F. ; Planck, J.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

30 Sep-2 Oct 1991

Firstpage

2

Lastpage

11

Abstract

The authors present a checkpointing scheme that is transparent, imposes overhead only during checkpoints, requires minimal message logging, and allows for quick resumption of execution from a checkpointed image. Since checkpointing multicomputer applications poses requirements different from those posed by checkpointing general distributed systems, existing distributed checkpointing schemes are inadequate for multicomputer checkpointing. The proposed checkpointing scheme makes use of special properties of multicomputer interconnection networks to satisfy this set of requirements. The proposed algorithm is efficient both when taking checkpoints and when recovering from checkpointed images

Keywords

fault tolerant computing; multiprocessor interconnection networks; performance evaluation; checkpointing scheme; minimal message logging; multicomputer applications; multicomputer interconnection networks; Application software; Checkpointing; Computer applications; Computer science; Distributed databases; Hardware; Power system interconnection; Resumes; Time sharing computer systems; Transaction databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reliable Distributed Systems, 1991. Proceedings., Tenth Symposium on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2260-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RELDIS.1991.145398

Filename

145398