The development of an efficient checkpointing facility exploiting operating systems services of the GENESIS cluster operating system

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 523-538

  Rough, J T ^a   Goscinski, A M ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Checkpointing; Cluster computing; Fault tolerance; Operating system services

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CHECKPOINTING; CLUSTER COMPUTING;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 1842536500     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-739X(03)00171-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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