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Timely Rollback: Specification and Verification

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This paper presents a formal description and analysis of a technique for distributed rollback recovery. The setting for this work is a model for data-parallel computation with a notion of virtual time. The technique allows the selective undo of work at particular virtual times. A refinement theorem ensures the consistency of rollbacks.

Most of this work was done at Microsoft Research. M. Abadi is now at Google.

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  1. University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA

    Martín Abadi

  2. Microsoft Research, Mountain View, California, USA

    Michael Isard

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  1. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA

    Klaus Havelund

  2. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA

    Gerard Holzmann

  3. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA

    Rajeev Joshi

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Abadi, M., Isard, M. (2015). Timely Rollback: Specification and Verification. In: Havelund, K., Holzmann, G., Joshi, R. (eds) NASA Formal Methods. NFM 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9058. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17524-9_3

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