Josh, At this moment I´m working in the uncoordinated checkpoint, and probably I´ll have some tools to collect data from the process and environment and probably from the application.
About the application I´m considering the possibility to do something like this (MPI_Checkpoint??). Leonardo Fialho 2008/1/29, Josh Hursey <jjhur...@open-mpi.org>: > Not at the moment. > > This would be a neat addition to Open MPI if application developers > see a need for it. There are many issues surrounding this type of a > feature (like any feature). Most of them surround what an application > expects and requires from such an API. One such question is whether an > MPI_Checkpoint function would imply a coordinated global checkpoint > with barrier or a local uncoordinated checkpoint or something else. > > The checkpoint/restart framework in Open MPI was designed to allow for > some exposure of the checkpoint/restart routines. So depending on what > you are looking for it may be fairly straight forward to expose a > simple checkpoint/restart API. > > I have not heard many requests for such an API, but I may be willing > to help investigate if users are interested. > > Cheers, > Josh > > On Jan 29, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Wong, Wayne wrote: > > > Are there plans to provide an API that would allow a fault tolerant > > enabled program to invoke checkpointing directly? > > > > -Wayne > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > us...@open-mpi.org > > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >
