[Bioclusters] SGE and checkpointing

Ron Chen bioclusters@bioinformatics.org
Wed, 15 May 2002 22:16:49 -0700 (PDT)


> Blast on RH 7.2

I've never tried this before, but this is what you
can do --

1. patch the Linux kernel
This approach may be harder, but this will add check-
pointing support in the OS, that means you can check-
point all applications without recompiling.

2. use the checkpoint library
when you build blast, you need to link against the
special library, so that you program can react to
checkpoint "order" from SGE.

You can get more info about checkpointing from--
http://www.checkpointing.org/

Then you can use the checkpointing interface in SGE
to control the action needed to integrate your
application with SGE checkpoint handling.

-Ron

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