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

Scalable Input/Output, Daniel A. Reed, editor, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004, pp. 182-200.

See The SC 1997 paper for the precursor to this article.

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.

Citation Information

Plain Text:

.inbook         cpl:04:clip
author          Y. Chen and J. S. Plank and K. Li
title           {CLIP}: A Checkpointing Tool for Message-Passing
                Parallel Programs
booktitle       Scalable Input/Output
publisher       The MIT Press
address         Cambridge, MA
year            2004
pages           182-200

Bibtex:

@INBOOK{cpl:04:clip,
        author = "Y. Chen and J. S. Plank and K. Li",
        title = "{CLIP}: A Checkpointing Tool for Message-Passing
                Parallel Programs",
        booktitle = "Scalable Input/Output",
        publisher = "The MIT Press",
        address = "Cambridge, MA",
        year = "2004",
        pages = "182-200"
}