Nonblocking checkpointing for optimistic parallel simulation: Description and an implementation

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 593-610

  Quaglia, Francesco ^a   Santoro, Andrea ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Checkpointing; DMA; Myrinet; Optimistic synchronization; Parallel discrete event simulation; Performance optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

MYRINET; NONBLOCKING CHECKPOINTING; OPTIMISTIC SYNCHRONIZATION; PARALLEL DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0041347621     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2003.1206506     Document Type: Article

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