Distributed snapshots: determining global states of distributed systems

The work

AuthorsK. Mani Chandy; Leslie Lamport
Typearticle
Year1985
Citekeychandy1985distributed

Where it appeared

Published inACM Transactions on Computer Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Volume3
Issue1
Pages63--75

Identifiers

DOI10.1145/214451.214456
OpenAlexW2131053137

Abstract

This paper presents an algorithm by which a process in a distributed system determines a global state of the system during a computation. Many problems in distributed systems can be cast in terms of the problem of detecting global states. For instance, the global state detection algorithm helps to solve an important class of problems: stable property detection. A stable property is one that persists: once a stable property becomes true it remains true thereafter. Examples of stable properties are "computation has terminated," " the system is deadlocked" and "all tokens in a token ring have disappeared." The stable property detection problem is that of devising algorithms to detect a given stable property. Global state detection can also be used for checkpointing.

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@article{chandy1985distributed,
  title        = {Distributed snapshots: determining global states of distributed systems},
  author       = {K. Mani Chandy and Leslie Lamport},
  year         = {1985},
  journal      = {ACM Transactions on Computer Systems},
  volume       = {3},
  number       = {1},
  pages        = {63--75},
  publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  doi          = {10.1145/214451.214456},
}

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