Paper Info
Title
Transparent, Incremental Checkpointing at Kernel Level: a Foundation for Fault Tolerance for Parallel Computers
Abstract
We describe the software architecture, technical features, and performance of TICK (Transparent Incremental Checkpointer at Kernel level), a system-level checkpointer implemented as a kernel thread, specifi- cally designed to provide fault tolerance in Linux clusters. This implementation, based on the 2.6.11 Linux kernel, provides the essential functionality for transparent, highly responsive, and efficient fault tolerance based on full or incremental checkpointing at system level. TICK is completely user-transparent and does not require any changes to user code or system libraries; it is highly responsive: an interrupt, such as a timer interrupt, can trigger a checkpoint in as little as 2.5µs; and it supports incremental and full checkpoints with minimal overhead-less than 6% with full checkpointing to disk performed as frequently as once per minute.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/SC.2005.76
SC
Keywords
Field
DocType
software architecture,concurrent computing,fault tolerant,parallel computer,computer aided manufacturing,linux cluster,kernel,linux,fault tolerance
Interrupt,Permission,Computer science,Parallel computing,Thread (computing),Fault tolerance,Timer,Concurrent computing,Software architecture,Operating system,Linux kernel
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-061-2
79
2.93
References 
Authors
17
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gioiosa, Roberto145931.78
José Carlos Sancho238229.97
Song Jiang348825.41
Fabrizio Petrini42050165.82