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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2008
David L Darrington, Rochester, MN (US);
Matthew W Markland, Rochester, MN (US);
Philip James Sanders, Rochester, MN (US);
Richard Michael Shok, Rochester, MN (US);
David L Darrington, Rochester, MN (US);
Matthew W Markland, Rochester, MN (US);
Philip James Sanders, Rochester, MN (US);
Richard Michael Shok, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and program product checkpoint an application in a parallel computing system of the type that includes a plurality of hybrid nodes. Each hybrid node includes a host element and a plurality of accelerator elements. Each host element may include at least one multithreaded processor, and each accelerator element may include at least one multi-element processor. In a first hybrid node from among the plurality of hybrid nodes, checkpointing the application includes executing at least a portion of the application in the host element and at least one accelerator element and, in response to receiving a command to checkpoint the application, checkpointing the host element separately from the at least one accelerator element.