[Developers] Fwd: [Carpet] checkpoint at run-time request

[Erik Schnetter]

I've answered to the wrong mailing list...

I pointed to thorn HTTPD and gave instructions for using it.

-erik

On Oct 20, 2006, at 08:43:58, Bela Szilagyi wrote:

> I've sent this to the wrong mailing list...
>
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>
> Subject: [Carpet] checkpoint at run-time request
> Date: Wednesday 18 October 2006 16:15
> From: Bela Szilagyi <szilagyi at aei.mpg.de>
> To: Carpet Developers <developers at lists.carpetcode.org>
>
> Every once in a while (e.g., five minutes ago) I find myself guilty  
> of not
> having requested checkpoint files at a large enough frequency.
>
> In other terms, my current run may die before getting to its first
>  check-point file.  It will check-point at termination, but this  
> data may not
>  be good for restarting another run with a "fix".
>
> The question comes -- would it be possible to add some feature that  
> would
> allow me to tell a running simulation -- "please dump a checkpoint,  
> then go
> on."  The ordinary solution would be having Cactus watch a file in  
> which the
> user can place the request...  I know there is the web-interface  
> option of
> steering parameters, but I never trusted that enough to try...
>
> Could one just send a signal of some sort to the running code and  
> have the
> checkpoint file be dumped?
>
> More generically, it would be quite useful to have a simple,  
> usable, and
> trustworthy way of modifying parameters of a run, while it's  
> running.  Say,
> again, a simple ascii file being watched, read, parsed at every so  
> many
> iterations...
>
>
>
> --
> Bela Szilagyi
>
> Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik
> Albert-Einstein-Institut
> Tel: +49 331 567 7632
> Fax: +49 331 567 7649
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> Bela Szilagyi
>
> Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik
> Albert-Einstein-Institut
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> Fax: +49 331 567 7649
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