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In this paper we describe an mpiJava extension that implements a parallel checkpointing/recovery service. This checkpointing/recovery facility is transparent to applications, i.e. no instrumentation is needed. We use a distributed approach for taking the checkpoints, which means that the processes take their local checkpoints independently. This approach reduces communication between processes and there is not need for a central server for checkpoint storage. We present some experiments which suggest that the benefits of this extended MPI functionality do not have a significant performance penalty as a side effect, apart from the well-known penalties related to the local checkpoint generation.
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Hernández, E., Cardinale, Y., Pereira, W. (2006). Extended mpiJava for Distributed Checkpointing and Recovery. In: Mohr, B., Träff, J.L., Worringen, J., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4192. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11846802_27
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