[clug] Idle thought: can I migrate processes from a high-power to a low-power system?

[Carlo Hamalainen]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:52 PM, steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au>wrote:

>  - Does anyone (routinely) *do* live-migration of long-running tasks,
> especially from hi-spec to low-spec x86 architectures?
>

I tried CryoPID a few years ago but I couldn't get it to work:
http://cryopid.berlios.de/
Looks like it hasn't been updated since 2005?

HPC people often need to checkpoint/restart jobs that run for very long
periods of time, so there is some support for that:

https://wikis.nyu.edu/display/NYUHPC/Checkpoint-Restart

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Carlo Hamalainen
http://carlo-hamalainen.net