From: Paul H. Hargrove (PHHargrove_at_lbl_dot_gov)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2007 - 10:01:39 PDT
Mark Calleja wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking at getting BLCR checkpointing to work with Condor's > vanilla and parallel/MPI universes, but I'd like clarification to a > point mentioned in the User's Guide that's a potential stumbling > block. Specifically, the manual states: > > "Files must exist at their original paths and ..." etc. > > Are those paths relative to the current working directory, or absolute > relative to / ? If it's the former then all should be OK, but if it's > the latter then I'm sunk as scratch directories on different execute > nodes are bound to have different locations under Condor. > > Thanks for any help, > Mark The full absolute path is currently the one of interest. There is work being done externally on a mechanism for providing a remapping mechanism at restart time (eg renaming scratch directories). Because that work is being done outside of our group, I have no estimate as to when that capability will be available in a BLCR release. -Paul -- Paul H. Hargrove PHHargrove_at_lbl_dot_gov Future Technologies Group HPC Research Department Tel: +1-510-495-2352 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Fax: +1-510-486-6900