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Re: Use of checkpoints for parallel data processing?

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From	Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
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Subject	Re: Use of checkpoints for parallel data processing?
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> Deciding what to write is very program-dependent;

I agree ...


> I do not expect any software library to do a decent job at deciding this.

How do you think about information from documents like the following?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_checkpointing#Practical_implementations_for_Linux.2FUnix
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BasicApi#checkpointing

Regards,
Markus

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