The Journal of Supercomputing
Fault-Tolerant File-I/O for Portable Checkpointing Systems
The Journal of Supercomputing - Special issue on embedded fault-tolerance systems
CoCheck: Checkpointing and Process Migration for MPI
IPPS '96 Proceedings of the 10th International Parallel Processing Symposium
Fault Recovery Mechanism for Multiprocessor Servers
FTCS '97 Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS '97)
Checkpointing in CosMiC: A User-Level Process Migration Environment
PRFTS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 Pacific Rim International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Systems
Checkpointing and Its Applications
FTCS '95 Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing
MPICH-V2: a Fault Tolerant MPI for Volatile Nodes based on Pessimistic Sender Based Message Logging
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
The design and implementation of Zap: a system for migrating computing environments
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
Cruz: Application-Transparent Distributed Checkpoint-Restart on Standard Operating Systems
DSN '05 Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
Parallel Algorithm and Implementation for Realtime Dynamic Simulation of Power System
ICPP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing
Design and Implementation of Multiple Fault-Tolerant MPI over Myrinet (M^3)
SC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Application-Transparent Checkpoint/Restart for MPI Programs over InfiniBand
ICPP '06 Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Parallel Processing
Libckpt: transparent checkpointing under Unix
TCON'95 Proceedings of the USENIX 1995 Technical Conference Proceedings
ACIC: automatic cloud I/O configurator for HPC applications
SC '13 Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
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Checkpoint and Restart (CPR) is becoming critical to large scale parallel computers, whose Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) may be much shorter than the execution times of the applications. The CPR mechanism should be able to store and recover the states of virtual memory, communication and files for the applications in a consistent way. However, many CPR tools ignore file states, which may cause errors for applications with file operations on recovery. Some CPR tools adopt library-based approaches or kernel-level file systems to deal with file states, but they only support limited types of file operations which are not sufficient for some applications. Moreover, many library-based approaches are not transparent to user applications because they wrap file APIs. Kernel-level file systems are difficult to deploy in production systems due to unnecessary overhead they may introduce to applications that do not need CPR. In this paper we propose a user-level file system, CprFS, to address these problems. As a file system, CprFS can guarantee transparency to user applications, and is convenient to support arbitrary file operations. It can be deployed on applications' demand to avoid intervention with other applications. Experimental results on micro-benchmarks and real-world applications show that CprFS introduces acceptable overhead and has little impact on checkpointing systems.