Talks1: Application Checkpointing

Antti Kantee – “Using Application-Driven Checkpointing Logic for Hot Spare High Availability”
–> See conference proceedings.
– Good technical talk. interested attendantes.
– Outlines the possibilies, advantages and disadvantages of Userland Checkpointing.
– Good: Application knows about all the relevant data Bad: Every Application needs to adapted, Some parts like Network which are provied by the OS are difficult to access
agc & uwe@NetBSD.org: NetBSD on Handhelds
— Nothing works out of the box, as usual with NetBSD :-). The Beamer doesn’t recognize the screen resolution, slides are too large.
— Nice Image of a portable Computer made out of a normal PC
— showed a Journada with Windows CE.
— lots of experimental stuff.
— As usually agc’s presentations are too long