Re: [Dmtcp-forum] reliability

[Jason A. <ja...@cs...>]

You can read (but not write) the filename of the checkpoint through
dmtcpGetLocalStatus()->checkpointFilename

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Kapil Arya <ka...@cc...> wrote:
>> My main interest is a backup against failures for long-running
>> simulations,
>> which are of a trivial parallel nature (i.e., multiple simultations with
>> no
>> interaction between processes).
>>
>> There might be 100s of simulation results in the same directory.  I would
>> want
>> to at least be able to get the name of the checkpoint files so I would
>> know
>> which to restart - but more important I'd probably want my script to
>> automatically remove checkpoint files when jobs complete - so it needs to
>> know
>> the names.  Being able to set the name I think is a nice enhancement, but
>> getting the name seems required.
>
> Okay, so I will try to spare some cycles to get this feature into DMTCP
> sometime over this weekend. Will write you back once I have committed the
> code to svn.
> --Kapil
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