``Libckpt: Transparent Checkpointing under Unix''
James S. Plank,
Micah Beck,
Gerry Kingsley,
and
Kai Li
Conference Proceedings, Usenix Winter 1995 Technical Conference,
New Orleans, LA, January, 1995, pp. 213--223.
Abstract
Checkpointing is a simple technique for rollback recovery: the state
of an executing program is periodically saved to a disk file from
which it can be recovered after a failure. While recent research has
developed a collection of powerful techniques for minimizing the
overhead of writing checkpoint files, checkpointing remains
unavailable to most application developers. In this paper we
describe libckpt, a portable checkpointing tool for Unix that
implements all applicable performance optimizations which are
reported in the literature. While libckpt can be used in a
mode which is almost totally transparent to the programmer, it also
supports the incorporation of user directives into the creation of
checkpoints. This user-directed checkpointing is an innovation
which is unique to our work.
Citation Information
- Plain Text:
author J. S. Plank and M. Beck and G. Kingsley and K. Li
title Libckpt: Transparent Checkpointing under Unix
booktitle Usenix Winter Technical Conference
month January
place New Orleans, LA
year 1995
pages 213--223
where see http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~jplank/plank/papers/papers.html
- Bibtex:
@INPROCEEDINGS{pbkl:95:lib,
author = "J. S. Plank and M. Beck and G. Kingsley and K. Li",
title = "{\bf Libckpt}: Transparent Checkpointing under {Unix}",
booktitle = "Usenix Winter Technical Conference",
month = "January",
place = "New Orleans, LA",
year = "1995",
pages = "213--223",
where = "see http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~jplank/plank/papers/papers.html"
}