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ROLLBACK RECOVERY MECHANISM
Log-Based rollback Recovery Mechanism Checkpoint-Based Rollback Recovery Mechanism In checkpointing based rollback recovery is a well-established technique to deal with…
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Checkpoint-Recovery
Introduction Checkpoint-Recovery is a common technique for imbuing a program or system with fault tolerant qualities, and grew from the…
General Concepts 4 min read
Marine Generators – Starting Checks & Procedure
Starting of generator engine Starting of an engine from “stop” state is something which needs to be done with care,…
Distributed Systems 2 min read
Deadlock detection
In a distributed system deadlock can neither be prevented nor avoided as the system is so vast that it is…
Distributed Systems 3 min read
Suzuki–Kasami Algorithm
Suzuki–Kasami algorithm is a token-based algorithm for achieving mutual exclusion in distributed systems.This is modification of Ricart–Agrawala algorithm, a permission based…
Distributed Systems 3 min read
Maekawa’s Algorithm
Maekawa’s Algorithm is quorum based approach to ensure mutual exclusion in distributed systems. As we know, In permission based algorithms like…
General Concepts 4 min read
Layout Of Middle Level Of Engine Room
Introduction We learnt about the engine room design and layout of the bottom most platform and saw the various machineries and equipment…
Distributed Systems 2 min read
Ricart–Agrawala Algorithm
Ricart–Agrawala algorithm is an algorithm to for mutual exclusion in a distributed system proposed by Glenn Ricart and Ashok Agrawala. This…
Distributed Systems 9 min read
DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY
Distributed shared memory (DSM) is an abstraction used for sharing data between computers that do not share physical memory. Processes…
General Concepts 5 min read
Ship’s Engine Room Top Platform Explored
Introduction We have been talking about the various platforms of the ship engine room and have discussed about the bottom platform as well as…
Distributed Systems 3 min read
Lamport’s Algorithm
Lamport’s Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm is a permission based algorithm proposed by Lamport as an illustration of his synchronization scheme for…
Distributed Systems 3 min read
Mutual exclusion in distributed system
Mutual exclusion is a concurrency control property which is introduced to prevent race conditions. It is the requirement that a process…