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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2000
Paul Bay, Arlington, MA (US);
Ephraim Vishniac, Arlington, MA (US);
Craig W. Stanfill, Waltham, MA (US);
Ab Initio Software Corporation, Lexington, MS (US);
Abstract
A data processing system and method that provides checkpointing and permits a continuous flow of data processing by allowing each process to return to operation after checkpointing, independently of the time required by other processes to checkpoint their state. Checkpointing in accordance with the invention makes use of a command message from a checkpoint processor that sequentially propagates through a process stage from data sources through processes to data sinks, triggering each process to checkpoint its state and then pass on a checkpointing message to connected “downstream” processes. This approach provides checkpointing and permits a continuous flow of data processing by allowing each process to return to normal operation after checkpointing, independently of the time required by other processes to checkpoint their state.