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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1999
Tushar Deepak Chandra, New York, NY (US);
Ahmed-Sameh Afif Fakhouri, New Rochelle, NY (US);
Liana Liyow Fong, Irvington, NY (US);
William Francis Jerome, Amawalk, NY (US);
Srirama Mandyam Krishnakumar, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Vijay Krishnarao Naik, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
John Arthur Pershing, Jr., Buchanan, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Resources are checkpointed in order to save the state of the resources. The resources can then be brought back to the same running state, during a restart procedure, by making use of the saved state. The determination of when to take a checkpoint or when to restart a resource is made by an entity, such as a cluster manager, external to the entity initiating or taking the checkpoint or performing the restart. The decision to checkpoint/restart a resource is provided by the cluster manager to a resource manager associated with the resource. This communication is facilitated by interfaces to the cluster manager provided by the resource manager.