Advanced I/O Techniques for Efficient and Highly Available Process Crash Recovery Protocols

<p>As the number of CPU cores in high-performance computing platforms continues to grow, the availability and reliability of these systems become a primary concern. As such, some solutions are physical (ie. power backup) and some are software driven. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has created a system-level fault-tolerant checkpoint/restart implementation for Linux Clusters. This allows processes to restart computations at the last known checkpoint in the event the system crashes. The checkpoint data creation is highly dependent on system input and output operations. This paper proposes: (i) a technique to improve the efficiency of these I/O operations and (ii) an alternative checkpoint creation method to increase availability and reliability of checkpointing data.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Computer Science - Applied Computing Track

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

TSYS School of Computer Science

Year dc:date.available

2011

Author dc:creator

• Cornwell, Jason Warren

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Angkul Kongmunvattana
• Dr. Eugen Ionascu
• Dr. Wayne Summers

• Caching
• Checkpoint
• Crash Recovery
• Fault-Tolerant System
• High Performance Computing
• Network File System
• Computer Sciences
• OS and Networks
• Programming Languages and Compilers

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/theses_dissertations/8

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:csuepress.columbusstate.edu:theses_dissertations-1008