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Commit cf2479d8 authored by Moe Jette's avatar Moe Jette
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clarify use of checkpoint/blcr per Hongjia Cao's email

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...@@ -16,9 +16,20 @@ Functionality provided includes: ...@@ -16,9 +16,20 @@ Functionality provided includes:
node failure</li> node failure</li>
</ol></p> </ol></p>
<b>Note:</b> checkpoint/blcr cannot restart interactive jobs. It can <p><b>Note:</b> checkpoint/blcr cannot restart interactive jobs. It can
create checkpoints for both interactive and batch steps, but only create checkpoints for both interactive and batch steps, but only
batch jobs can be restarted. batch jobs can be restarted.</p>
<p>The general mode of operation is to
<ol>
<li>Start the job step using the <b>srun_cr</b> command as described
below.</li>
<li>Create a checkpoint of <b>srun_cr</b> using BLCR's <b>cr_checkpoint</b>
command and cancel the job. <b>srun_cr</b> will automatically checkpoint
your job.</li>
<li>Restart <b>srun_cr</b> using BLCR's <b>cr_restart</b> command.
The job will be restarted using a newly allocated jobid.</li>
</ol>
<h2>User Commands</h2> <h2>User Commands</h2>
...@@ -170,6 +181,6 @@ or reading job checkpoint files</li> ...@@ -170,6 +181,6 @@ or reading job checkpoint files</li>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 1 December 2009</p> <p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 7 January 2010</p>
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