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When a computation is going to require a long time to complete, so long that it cannot be done within the time limits on the system, | When a computation is going to require a long time to complete, so long that it cannot be done within the time limits on the system, | ||
the | the application you are running must support '''checkpointing'''. The application should be able to save its state to a file, called a ''checkpoint file'', and | ||
then it should be able to restart and continue the computation from that saved state. | then it should be able to restart and continue the computation from that saved state. |