How hard is it to take a snapshot?

  • Authors:
  • Faith Ellen Fich

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  • Venue:
  • SOFSEM'05 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Theory and Practice of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The snapshot object is an important and well-studied primitive in distributed computing. This paper will present some implementations of snapshots from registers, in both asycnhronous and synchronous systems, and discuss known lower bounds on the time and space complexity of this problem.