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Independent Checkpointing in a Heterogeneous Grid Environment

Abstract

The EU-funded XtreemOS project implements an open-source grid operating system based on Linux. In order to provide fault tolerance and migration for grid applications, it integrates a distributed grid-checkpointing service called XtreemGCP. This service is designed to support different checkpointing protocols and to address the underlying grid-node checkpointers (e.g. BLCR, LinuxSSI, OpenVZ, etc.) in a transparent manner through a uniform interface. In this paper, we present the integration of an independent checkpointing and rollback-recovery protocol into the XtreemGCP. The solution we propose is not checkpointer bound and thus can be transparently used on top of any grid-node checkpointer. To evaluate the prototype we run it within a heterogeneous environment composed of single-PC nodes and a Single System Image (SSI) cluster. The experimental results demonstrate the capability of the XtreemGCP service to integrate different checkpointing protocols and independently checkpoint a distributed application within a heterogeneous grid environment. Moreover, the performance evaluation also shows that our solution outperforms the existing coordinated checkpointing protocol in terms of scalability.
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inria-00532912 , version 1 (10-11-2011)

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Eugen Feller, John Mehnert-Spahn, Michael Schoettner, Christine Morin. Independent Checkpointing in a Heterogeneous Grid Environment. First International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2010), Dec 2010, Chennai, India. ⟨inria-00532912⟩
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