Booting of Diskless Workstation

Diskless Checkpointing Diskless Checkpointing

The precursor to this work (where diskless checkpointing was rst described) was presented at FTCS-24 27]. Abstract Diskless Checkpointing is a technique for checkpointing the state of a long-running computation on a distributed system without relying on stable storage. As such, it eliminates the performance bottleneck of traditional checkpointing on distributed systems. In this paper, we motiva...

Personal Secure Booting

Bootstrap loading using TFTP

Many computer systems, such as diskless workstations, are bootstrapped by loading one or more code files across a network. Unfortunately, the protocol used to load these initial files has not been standardized numerous methods have been employed by different computer manufacturers. This can make it difficult, for example, for an installation to support several different kinds of systems on a lo...

PaxosLease: Diskless Paxos for Leases

This paper describes PaxosLease, a distributed algorithm for lease negotiation. PaxosLease is based on Paxos, but does not require disk writes or clock synchrony. PaxosLease is used for master lease negotation in the open-source Keyspace replicated key-value store.

Scalable Diskless Checkpointing for Large Parallel Systems