A survey of recoverable distributed shared virtual memory systems

Distributed Shared Virtual Memory (DSVM) systems provide a shared memory abstraction on distributed memory architectures. Such systems ease parallel application programming because the shared-memory programming model is often more natural than the message-passing paradigm. However, the probability o...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems Vol. 8; no. 9; pp. 959 - 969
Main Authors: Morin, C., Puaut, I.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.09.1997
Subjects:
Bit error rate
Checkpointing
Concurrent computing
Fault tolerance
Hardware
Memory architecture
Parallel programming
Programming profession
Read-write memory
Writing
ISSN:1045-9219
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Summary:Distributed Shared Virtual Memory (DSVM) systems provide a shared memory abstraction on distributed memory architectures. Such systems ease parallel application programming because the shared-memory programming model is often more natural than the message-passing paradigm. However, the probability of failure of a DSVM increases with the number of sites. Thus, fault tolerance mechanisms must be implemented in order to allow processes to continue their execution in the event of a failure. This paper gives an overview of recoverable DSVMs (RDSVMs) that provide a checkpointing mechanism to restart parallel computations in the event of a site failure.
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ISSN:1045-9219
DOI:10.1109/71.615441