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A survey of process migration mechanisms

Author(s) -

Jonathan M. Smith

Publication year - 1988

Publication title -

acm sigops operating systems review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.18

H-Index - 104

eISSN - 1943-586X

pISSN - 0163-5980

DOI - 10.1145/47671.47673

Subject(s) - computer science , process migration , process (computing) , reliability (semiconductor) , data migration , distributed computing , state (computer science) , reliability engineering , operating system , programming language , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering

We define process migration as the transfer of a sufficient amount of a process's state from one machine to another for the process to execute on the target machine.This paper surveys proposed and implemented mechanisms for process migration. We pay particular attention to the designer's goals, such as performance, load-balancing, and reliability. The effect of operating system design upon the ease of implementation is discussed in some detail; we conclude that message-passing systems simplify designs for migration.

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