— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...
Evolutionary Algorithms, including Genetic Programming (GP), are frequently employed to solve difficult real-life problems, which can require up to days or months of computation. ...
Commodity hardware and software are growing increasingly more complex, with advances such as chip heterogeneity and specialization, deeper memory hierarchies, ne-grained power ma...
The traditional complex access procedure still prevents a lot of scientists to migrate their applications to massively parallel computers and to bene t from their computing power. ...
DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded CheckPointing) is a transparent user-level checkpointing package for distributed applications. Checkpointing and restart is demonstrated for a wid...