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Independent Global Snapshots in Large Distributed Systems

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Distributed systems depend on consistent global snapshots for process recovery and garbage collection activity. We provide exact conditions for an arbitrary checkpoint based on independent dependency tracking within clusters of nodes. The method permits that nodes (within clusters) can independently compute dependency information based on available (local) information.

The existing models of global snapshot computations provide the necessary and sufficient conditions. But, these require expensive global computations. The proposed computations can be performed by a node to identify existing global checkpoints. The nodes can also compute conditions to make a checkpoint, or conditions, such that a collection of checkpoints, can belong to a global snapshot.

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  1. Lucent Technologies India Private Ltd., Building 372/2/B North Main Road, Koregaon, Pune, India

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  2. Database Systems Laboratory, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima, 965-8580, Japan

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  1. Dept. of Computer Software, The University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, FUKUSHIMA, 65-8580, JAPAN

    Minyi Guo

  2. Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, B2G 2W5, Canada

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Sreenivas, M.V., Bhalla, S. (2005). Independent Global Snapshots in Large Distributed Systems. In: Guo, M., Yang, L.T. (eds) New Horizons of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28967-4_15

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