``CLIP -- A Checkpointing Tool for Message-Passing Parallel Programs''

SC97: High Performance Computing & Networking, San Jose, November, 1997.

Abstract

Checkpointing is a useful technique for rollback recovery. We present CLIP, a user-level library that provides semi-transparent checkpointing for parallel programs on the Intel Paragon multicomputer. Creating an actual tool for checkpointing a complex machine like the Paragon is not easy, because many issues arise that require careful design decisions to be made. We detail what these decisions are, and how they were made in CLIP. We present performance data when checkpointing several long-running parallel applications. These results show that a convenient, general-purpose checkpointing tool like CLIP can provide fault-tolerance on a massively parallel multicomputer with good performance.

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author          Y. Chen and J. S. Plank and K. Li
title           CLIP: A Checkpointing Tool for Message-Passing
                Parallel Programs
booktitle       SC97: High Performance Networking and Computing
address         San Jose
month           November
year            1997
where           http://www.supercomp.org/sc97/proceedings/TECH/CHEN/INDEX.HTM

Bibtex:

@INPROCEEDINGS{cpl:97:clip,
        author = "Y. Chen and J. S. Plank and K. Li",
        title = "{CLIP}: A Checkpointing Tool for Message-Passing
                Parallel Programs",
        booktitle = "SC97: High Performance Networking
                     and Computing",
        address = "San Jose",
        month = "November",
        year = "1997",
        where = "http://www.supercomp.org/sc97/proceedings/TECH/CHEN/INDEX.HTM"
}