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From: gkn@ucsd.Edu (Gerard K. Newman)
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Subject: Re: OSs supporting checkpointing: looking for examples.
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Date: 28 Jul 90 22:41:48 GMT
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In article <5496@darkstar.ucsc.edu> vic@cs.arizona.edu (Vicraj T. Thomas) writes:
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>I am looking for examples of "traditional" operating systems (i.e. centralized
>OSs) that allowed user processes to periodically checkpoint their state so
>that, in case of a failure and subsequent recovery, they could be restarted
>from the last checkpoint.  Names of such OSs or pointers to papers that might
>contain this information would be greatly appreciated.

UNICOS, from Cray Resarch is one such.  Also, though less in the mainstream,
CTSS (from NERSC/LLNL) also allows this.

Cheers

gkn
San Diego Supercomputer Center