High performance computing systems with various checkpointing schemes

International Journal of Computers, Communications and Control

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 386-400

  Naksinehaboon, N ^a   Paun M ^b,c   Nassar, R ^b   Leangsuksun, B ^a   Scott, S ^d  

^a Louisiana Tech University   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SPIRU HARET UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Checkpoint restart model; Fault tolerance; HPC; Large scale distributed system; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951192525     PISSN: 18419836     EISSN: 18419844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15837/ijccc.2009.4.2455     Document Type: Article

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