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From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-21 08:25:29


On Oct 21, 2004, at 8:42 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> Sorry, we never integrated checkpoint / restart into XMPI.
> Theoretically, there is no technical reason that it could be done, but
> given our limited resources, I doubt that we will be doing it.

Oops -- typo! The above sentence should read:

    "Theoretically, there is no technical reason that it could *not* be
done..."

Meaning that XMPI should be able to handle CR; we just never did it.

Sorry for the confusion...

> If you're looking for how to incorporate cr support into xmpi, have a
> look at the source code for mpirun -- xmpi duplicates at least part of
> it to launch jobs; it would need to duplicate some more of it to
> checkpoint / restart applications.

-- 
{+} Jeff Squyres
{+} jsquyres_at_[hidden]
{+} http://www.lam-mpi.org/