Re: Some general questions about checkpoint/restart

From: Paul H. Hargrove (PHHargrove_at_lbl_dot_gov)
Date: Tue Mar 10 2009 - 07:42:41 PDT

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    Leo,
    
      1. We are working with Prof. Mueller and his students.  We are hoping 
    incremental checkpoint will be available in BLCR by the end of the year.
      2. I am not aware of any specific alternatives available to you, but 
    others may know more.
    
    -Pau;
    
    -Paul
    
    Wang Yi wrote:
    > Hi,
    >    I've be using BLCR for some time and I think it is great. However,
    > I've some questions:
    >    1. I found in the mail list archive that there's no plan to
    > implement incremental checkpoint in BLCR, have you changed your mind?
    > And, here I found this page
    >    http://moss.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/blcr.html
    >    Are you developers related to that project?
    >    2. I think incremental checkpoint is useful for some applications,
    > but I can not find any up to date and well maintained projects. I only
    > get this libNXckpt which is quite old.
    >       Could anyone tell me some active projects about
    > checkpoint/restart, especially those could carry out incremental C/R.
    >      Thanks very much.
    >     Best regards.
    >
    > Leo
    >   
    
    
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