The reliability of concurrent and distributed systems often depends on some well-known techniques for fault tolerance. One such technique is based on checkpointing and rollback recovery. Checkpointing involves processes to take snapshots of their current states regularly, so that a rollback recovery strategy is able to bring the system back to a previous consistent state whenever a failure occurs. In this paper, we consider a message-passing concurrent programming language and propose a novel rollback recovery strategy that is based on some explicit checkpointing primitives and the use of a (partially) reversible semantics for rolling back the system.

翻译：并发和分布式系统的可靠性通常依赖于某些众所周知的容错技术。其中一种技术基于检查点设置和回滚恢复。检查点涉及进程定期对其当前状态执行快照，以便在发生故障时，回滚恢复策略能够将系统恢复到先前的一致状态。本文考虑一种消息传递并发编程语言，并提出一种新颖的回滚恢复策略，该策略基于显式检查点原语以及使用（部分）可逆语义来回滚系统。