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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1996
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A scheme for checkpointing and a computer system capable of realizing the distributed checkpointing for processes which carry out the inter-process communications, while shortening a stopping time of the processes due to the distributed checkpointing. The inter-process communications of each process are stopped while continuing the normal processing of each process first, and a checkpointing processing for each process is executed when the inter-process communications of all processes are stopped. Alternatively, the inter-computer type inter-process communications of each process are stopped while continuing the intra-computer type inter-process communications and the normal processing of each process first, and a checkpointing processing for each process is executed while stopping the intra-computer type inter-process communications of each process when the inter-computer type inter-process communications of all processes are stopped.