rafaelaBrum / CRAC-plugin

CRAC: Checkpoint-Restart Architecture for CUDA Streams and UVM

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• TODO
• CITATION
• DMTCP

Introduction

This is a new DMTCP(https://github.com/dmtcp/dmtcp.git) plugin to checkpoint- restart CUDA application with noval split-process architecture. The Plugin code is in the contrib/split-cuda directory. CRAC consists of the plugin on top of DMTCP.

TODO

We are in the process of porting our code. It was developed for a development cluster's specific environment. The version here is intended to run on all recent-model NVIDIA GPUs. We have not yet finished porting the development code. For example, the version on the development cluster correctly runs Gromacs, but we have not yet fixed that bug for this version.

CITATION

The citation of this work is an accepted paper at SC'20. The citation will be provided here when the SC proceedings are available. In the meantime, there is a technical report at arxiv.org, under the title:
CRAC: Checkpoint-Restart Architecture for CUDA with Streams and UVM
by Twinkle Jain and Gene Cooperman

DMTCP: Distributed MultiThreaded CheckPointing

(http://dmtcp.sourceforge.net/)

DMTCP is a tool to transparently checkpoint the state of multiple simultaneous applications, including multi-threaded and distributed applications. It operates directly on the user binary executable, without any Linux kernel modules or other kernel modifications.

Among the applications supported by DMTCP are MPI (various implementations), OpenMP, MATLAB, Python, Perl, R, and many programming languages and shell scripting languages. DMTCP also supports GNU screen sessions, including vim/cscope and emacs. With the use of TightVNC, it can also checkpoint and restart X Window applications. For a multilib (mixture of 32- and 64-bit processes), see "./configure --enable-multilib".

DMTCP supports the commonly used OFED API for InfiniBand, as well as its integration with various implementations of MPI, and resource managers (e.g., SLURM).

To install DMTCP, see INSTALL.md.

For an overview DMTCP, see QUICK-START.md.

For the license, see COPYING.

For more information on DMTCP, see: http://dmtcp.sourceforge.net.

For the latest version of DMTCP (both official release and git), see: http://dmtcp.sourceforge.net/downloads.html.