Adaptation point analysis for computation migration/checkpointing

Finding the appropriate location of adaptation points for computation migration/checkpointing is critical since the distance between two consecutive adaptation points determines the migration/checkpointing scheme’s sensitivity and overheads. This paper proposes a heuristic adaptation point placement algorithm to improve the computation migration/checkpointing schemes’ performance in terms of sensitivity and flexibility. This heuristic algorithm enables automatic and transparent insertion of checkpoints in user’s source code. Categories and Subject Descriptors C.2.4 [Computer-Communication Networks]: Distributed Systems – Distributed applications. General Terms Algorithms, Performance, Experimentation. Keywords Adaptation points, checkpointing, process migration, thread migration.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: SAC
• Authors: Yanqing Ji, Hai Jiang, Vipin Chaudhary
• Keywords: Adaptation Points, Applied Computing, Consecutive Adaptation Points, Heuristic Adaptation Point, SAC 2005