diff --git a/doc/html/ibm.html b/doc/html/ibm.html index 222fba2ed1d0931d82159a478f2e5060d55e270d..896fec81ee1eb0a65dbb09f63e04d6d4d78c0083 100644 --- a/doc/html/ibm.html +++ b/doc/html/ibm.html @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management, SLURM, resource management, Linux clusters, high-performance computing, Livermore Computing"> <meta name="LLNLRandR" content="UCRL-WEB-209488"> -<meta name="LLNLRandRdate" content=" May 2005"> +<meta name="LLNLRandRdate" content="14 July 2005"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="description" content="Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management"> <meta name="copyright" @@ -79,6 +79,25 @@ Poe will recognize that it lacks a SLURM job allocation (the SLURM_JOBID environment variable will be missing) and create the SLURM allocation prior to launching tasks.</p> +<h3>Checkpoint</h3> + +<p>SLURM supports checkpoint via poe. +In order to enable checkpoint, the shell executing the poe command must +itself be initiated with the environment variable <b>CHECKPOINT=yes</b>. +One file is written for each node on which the job is executing, plus +another for the script executing poe.a +By default, the checkpoint files will be written to the current working +directory of the job. +Names and locations of these files can be controled using the +environment variables <b>MP_CKPTFILE</b> and <b>MP_CKPTDIR</b>. +Use the squeue command to identify the job and job step of interest. +To initiate a checkpoint in which the job step will continue execution, +use the command: <br> +<b>scontrol check create <i>job_id.step_id</i></b><br> +To initiate a checkpoint in which the job step will terminate afterwards, +use the command: <br> +<b>scontrol check vacate <i>job_id.step_id</i></b></p> + <h3>System Administration</h3> <p>Three unique components are required to use SLURM on an IBM system. @@ -113,7 +132,7 @@ of LLNL, which established a contract with IBM for this purpose).</p> <td colspan="3"><hr> <p>For information about this page, contact <a href="mailto:slurm-dev@lists.llnl.gov">slurm-dev@lists.llnl.gov</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.llnl.gov/"><img align=middle src="lll.gif" width="32" height="32" border="0"></a></p> <p class="footer">UCRL-WEB-209488<br> -Last modified 23 May 2005</p></td> +Last modified 14 July 2005</p></td> </tr> </table> </td>