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What is Checkpointing

Chapter 96
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
A technique to add fault tolerance into computing systems. It basically consists of saving a snapshot of the application's state, so that it can restart from that point in case of failure.
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Improved Checkpoint Using the Effective Management of I/O in a Cloud Environment
Bakhta Meroufel (University of Oran1, Algeria) and Ghalem Belalem (University of Es Senia Oran1, Algeria)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch096
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Chapter 33
Scalable Fault Tolerance for Large-Scale Parallel and Distributed Computing
Checkpointing is a type of techniques to incorporate fault tolerance into a system.
Published in Chapter: Scalable Fault Tolerance for Large-Scale Parallel and Distributed Computing; From: Handbook of Research on Scalable Computing Technologies
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Chapter 12
Wireless Grids: Recent Advances in Resource and Job Management
Is the process of saving the state of a process or task.
Published in Chapter: Wireless Grids: Recent Advances in Resource and Job Management; From: Handbook of Research on Next Generation Mobile Communication Systems
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