Building reliable distributed programs with file operations

Author

Ouyang, Jinsong ; Maheshwari, Piyush

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

1997

fDate

18-21 Dec 1997

Firstpage

380

Lastpage

385

Abstract

Describes a new protocol that helps the user in building reliable distributed applications with file operations. Our file checkpointing and recovery protocol is designed to consistently checkpoint and recover user files with respect to the volatile state of the distributed program. Based on the protocol, a file I/O interface has been implemented as part of our Libra library for supporting fault tolerance in distributed applications. File operations are done using this interface whereas the complexity of checkpointing and recovering user files is hidden from the application level-the checkpointing and recovery of user files are done automatically

Keywords

distributed algorithms; file organisation; memory protocols; parallel programming; software fault tolerance; software libraries; software reliability; system recovery; Libra library; distributed applications; fault tolerance; file I/O interface; file checkpointing; file operations; file recovery; protocol; reliable distributed program construction; user files; volatile program state; Application software; Buildings; Checkpointing; Computer science; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Protocols; Runtime; Shadow mapping; Software libraries;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High-Performance Computing, 1997. Proceedings. Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8067-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HIPC.1997.634518

Filename

634518