This survey covers rollback-recovery techniques that do not require special language
constructs. In the first part of the survey we classify rollback-recovery protocols into …

DMTCP (distributed multithreaded checkpointing) is a transparent user-level checkpointing
package for distributed applications. Checkpointing and restart is demonstrated for a wide …

Parallel applications running across thousands of processors must protect themselves from
inevitable system failures. Many applications insulate themselves from failures by …

Diskless Checkpointing is a technique for checkpointing the state of a long-running
computation on a distributed system without relying on stable storage. As such, it eliminates …

Fault tolerance is an important property for large scale computational grid systems, where
geographically distributed nodes co-operate to execute a task. In order to achieve high level …

Given the scale of massively parallel systems, occurrence of faults is no longer an exception
but a regular event. Periodic checkpointing is becoming increasingly important in these …

Over the past two decades, rollback-recovery via checkpoint-restart has been used with
reasonable success for long-running applications, such as scientific workloads that take …

The scale of high performance computing (HPC) systems is exponentially growing,
potentially causing prohibitive shrinkage of mean time between failures (MTBF) while the …

High performance computing (HPC) systems use checkpoint-restart to tolerate failures.
Typically, applications store their states in checkpoints on a parallel file system (PFS). As …

When a machine is connected to the Internet via a slow network, such as a 28.8 Kbps
modem, the cumulative latency to communicate over the Internet to World Wide Web servers …