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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2017
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 16/11 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1415 (2013.01); G06F 16/128 (2019.01); G06F 11/1438 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of performing a checkpoint on a set of connected processors and memories comprises the steps of creating one or more statefiles for one or more of the processors, querying available processing and/or memory resources, allocating data from one or more statefiles to the available resources, compressing the allocated data, storing the compressed data, and repeating the querying, allocating, compressing and storing steps until all of the statefile(s) are compressed and stored.