Distributed replication mechanism for building fault tolerant system with distributed checkpoint mechanism

✍ Scribed by Hideaki Hirayama; Toshio Shirakihara; Tatsunori Kanai

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 161 KB
• Volume: 31
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0882-1666
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-684x(200005)31:5<12::aid-scj2>3.0.co;2-w

✦ Synopsis

A distributed fault tolerant middleware system called ARTEMIS (Advanced Reliable disTributed Environment MIddleware System) was developed for the purpose of building fault tolerant systems without modifying either the source code or the binary code of application programs in open systems. In ARTEMIS, we proposed the Distributed Replication mechanism for building fault tolerant systems with the Distributed Checkpoint mechanism. In the Distributed Replication mechanism, a server computer is configured with a primary server computer and a backup server computer. If a failure occurs, it recovers the system in a few seconds to tens of seconds. Its overhead is 10% to 20% in TPC-C Benchmark tests.