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Memory State Compressors for Giga-Scale Checkpoint/Restore
St. Louis, Missouri September 17-September 21
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Andreas Moshovos, Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto
Alexandros Kostopoulos, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications University of Athens

We propose a checkpoint store compression method for coarse-grain giga-scale checkpoint/restore. This mechanism can be useful for debugging, post-mortem analysis and error recovery. Our compression method exploits value locality in the memory data and address streams. Our compressors require few resources, can be easily pipelined and can process a full cache block per processor cycle. We study two applications of our compressors for post-mortem analysis: (1) Using them alone, and (2) using them in-series with a dictionary-based compressor. When used alone they offer competitive compression rates in most cases. When combined with dictionary compressors, they significantly reducing onchip buffer requirements.

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Andreas Moshovos, Alexandros Kostopoulos, "Memory State Compressors for Giga-Scale Checkpoint/Restore," pact, pp.303-314, 14th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'05), 2005
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