CRAC: An automatic assistant compiler of checkpoint/restart for OpenCL program. (2nd November 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chen, Genlang; Zhang, Jiajian; Zhu, Zufang; Wang, Hao; Jiang, Hai; Pang, Chaoyi
• Is Part Of: Concurrency and computation. Volume 34:Number 8(2022)
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• Publication Date: 2020-11-02
• Subjects: checkpoint/restart -- OpenCL -- precompiler; Parallel processing (Electronic computers) -- Periodicals; Parallel computers -- Periodicals; 004.35
• DOI: 10.1002/cpe.6048
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1532-0626

Abstract

Summary: Nowadays, people use multiple devices to meet the growing requirement for computing. With the application of multicard computing, fault tolerance, load balance, and resource sharing have been the hot issues and the checkpoint/restart (CPR) mechanism is critical in a preemptive system. This article proposes a CPR framework including the automatic compiler (CRAC) to achieve a feasible CPR system, especially for graphics processing unit applications on heterogeneous devices in OpenCL programs. By offering the positions of the CPR in source code, CRAC inserts primitives into programs and invokes the runtime support modules for final results. A comprehensive example and experiments have demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of proposed framework.