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Aug 28, 2008, 09 :01 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (5229 reads)

(Other stories by Douglas Eadline, Ph.D)

[ Thanks to Bryan Richard for this link. ]

"Long running jobs often write checkpoint files so they can re-start from the check point and thus not have to re-do the entire program run. This situation is what I would call manageable pain and is what makes clusters so attractive."

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