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Recovering from processor failures in distributed systems is an important problem in the design of reliable systems. The processes should coordinate their operation to guarantee that the set of local checkpoints taken by the individual processes form a consistent global checkpoint (recovery line). This allows the system to resume operation from a consistent global state, when recovering from failure. This paper shows the results of the implementation of a transparent (no special needs for applications) and coordinated (non blocking) rollback-recovery distributed algorithm. As it does not block applications, the overhead is reduced during failure-free operation. Furthermore, the rollback procedure can be executed fast as a recovery line is always available and well identified. Our preliminary experimental results show that the algorithm causes very low overhead on the performance (less than 2%), and high dependency on the checkpoint size. Now we study optimizations on the implementation to reduce checkpoint latency.
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Buligon, C., Cechin, S., Jansch-Pôrto, I. (2005). Implementing Rollback-Recovery Coordinated Checkpoints. In: Ramos, F.F., Larios Rosillo, V., Unger, H. (eds) Advanced Distributed Systems. ISSADS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11533962_22
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