TICK: Transparent Incremental Checkpointing at Kernel Level

Software · Mon Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 2004

OSTI ID:1230862

Petrini, Fabrizio; Gioiosa, Roberto

TICK is a software package implemented in Linux 2.6 that allows the save and restore of user processes, without any change to the user code or binary. With TICK a process can be suspended by the Linux kernel upon receiving an interrupt and saved in a file. This file can be later thawed in another computer running Linux (potentially the same computer). TICK is implemented as a Linux kernel module, in the Linux version 2.6.5

• Short Name / Acronym: TICK; 001922IBMPC00
• Site Accession Number: LDRD 20040480ER
• Version: 00
• Programming Language(s): Medium: X; OS: Linux 2.6; Compatibility: PC
• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 1230862
• Country of Origin: United States