The study is researching the fault tolerance in the large distributed
environments such as grid computing and clusters of computers in
order to find the most effective ways to deal with the errors
associated with the crash one of the devices in th
e environment or
network disconnection to ensure the continuity of the application in
the presence of the faults.In this paper we study a model of the
distributed environment and the parallel applications within it. Then
we provide a checkpoint mechanism that will enable us to ensure
continuity of the work used by a virtual representation of the
application (macro dataflow) and suitable for the applications
which uses work stealing algorithm to distribute the tasks which
are implemented in heterogeneous and dynamic environment.
This mechanism will add a simple cost to the cost of parallel
execution as a result of keeping part of the work during fault-free
execution. The study also provides a mathematical model to
calculate the time complexity i.e. the cost of this proposed
mechanism.
