Cocheck: Checkpointing and process migration for mpi

Checkpointing of parallel applications can be used as the core technology to provide process migration. Both, checkpointing and migration, are an important issue for parallel applications on networks of workstations. The CoCheck environment which we present in this paper introduces a new approach to provide checkpointing and migration for parallel applications. In difference to existing systems CoCheck rather sits on top of the message passing library than inside and achieves consistency at a level above the message passing system. It uses an existing single process checkpointer which is available for a wide range of systems. Hence, CoCheck can be easily adapted to both, different message passing systems and new machines. 1