Process Introspection: A Checkpoint Mechanism for High Performance Heterogeneous Distributed Systems (1996)
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@TECHREPORT{Ferrari96processintrospection:,
author = {Adam J. Ferrari},
title = {Process Introspection: A Checkpoint Mechanism for High Performance Heterogeneous Distributed Systems},
institution = {},
year = {1996}
}
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Abstract
The Process Introspection project is a design and implementation effort, the main goal of which is to construct a general purpose, flexible, efficient checkpoint/restart mechanism appropriate for use in high performance heterogeneous distributed systems. This checkpoint/restart mechanism has the primary constraint that it must be platform independent; that is, checkpoints produced on one architecture or operating system platform must be restartable on a different architecture or operating system platform. The Process Introspection mechanism is based on a design pattern for constructing interoperable checkpointable modules. Application of the design pattern is automated by two levels of software tools: a library of support routines that facilitate the use of the design pattern, and a source code translator that automatically applies the pattern to platform independent modules. A prototype implementation of library has been constructed and used to demonstrate that the design pattern can ...
