Title :
Design and performance analysis of CAPE based on discontinuous incremental checkpoints
Author :
Ha, Viet Hai ; Renault, Éric
Author_Institution :
Inst. Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Évry, France
Abstract :
Checkpointing Aided Parallel Execution (CAPE) is a paradigm using checkpointing technique to distribute sequential programs equipped with OpenMP directives in distributed systems. In its first prototype, the use of a complete checkpointer strongly decreased global performance. This paper shows how the performance of the CAPE paradigm have been improved using discontinuous incremental checkpointing and provide an in-depth analysis of this performance.
Keywords :
checkpointing; message passing; parallel processing; CAPE paradigm; OpenMP directives; checkpointing aided parallel execution; discontinuous incremental checkpointing; discontinuous incremental checkpoints; distributed systems; performance analysis; sequential programs; Checkpointing; Computer architecture; Instruction sets; Libraries; Parallel machines; Sparse matrices;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PacRim), 2011 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Conference_Location :
Victoria, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0252-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1555-5798
DOI :
10.1109/PACRIM.2011.6033008