Transparent Checkpoint-Restart of Multiple Processes on Commodity Operating Systems

USENIX 2007 - 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 323-326

  Laadan, Oren ^a   Nieh, Jason ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHECKPOINT/RESTART; COMMODITY OPERATING SYSTEMS; CONSISTENT STATE; DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING; FAULT RECOVERY; MULTIPLE PROCESS; OPERATING SYSTEM KERNEL; RESOURCES SHARING; RUNNING APPLICATIONS; SERVICES AVAILABILITY;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85160681664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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