This work proposes some generic approaches to offer transparency and efficiency to checkpoint-recovery implementations on Windows. On the one hand, a complete environment is proposed to prepare Windows to incorporate transparently any checkpoint-recovery implementation whose architecture respects a simple contract of reusability. The environment allows any application to use some checkpoint-recovery services with only the default process creation mechanisms offered by Windows. Moreover, it handles automatically the recovery of the processes in case of a crash and requires no human intervention in most scenarios. On the other hand, an optimization module is proposed to minimize the checkpointing time and to slow its degradation in situations of high checkpoint-recovery demands. The results show an excellent control of the checkpoint cost degradation and sometimes the complete absence of the penalty associated with concurrent checkpoint requests.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.112590 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Zounmevo, Judicaël. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Engineering (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002763468, proquestno: AAIMR51481, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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