ACR: Automatic checkpoint/restart for soft and hard error protection

International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ni, Xiang ^a   Meneses, Esteban ^a   Jain, Nikhil ^a   Kalé, Laxmikant V ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Checkpoint restart; Fault tolerance; Redundancy; Silent data corruption

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT TOLERANCE; RADIATION HARDENING; REDUNDANCY;

CHECK POINTS; CHECKPOINT/RESTART; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; ON-LINE INFORMATION; PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITIES; RECENT TRENDS; RECOVERY SCHEME; SILENT DATA CORRUPTIONS;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 84899671615     PISSN: 21674329     EISSN: 21674337     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2503210.2503266     Document Type: Conference Paper

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