[Beowulf] New member, upgrading our existing Beowulf cluster

[Chris Samuel]

----- "Håkon Bugge" <h-bugge at online.no> wrote:

> What we did in Platform (Scali) MPI, was to drain
> the HPC interconnect, then close it down. The problem
> was then reduced to checkpoint (e.g. using BLCR)
> N processes.

I suspect this is what Open-MPI does too, but I
don't know if the VM based systems can migrate
such jobs without this application layer support.

cheers,
Chris
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