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Most MPI checkpointers are substantially or even totally dependent on a specific MPI implementation or platform, so they may not be portable. In this paper we present design and implementation issues as well as solutions to enhance portability of an MPI checkpointer. We actually developed PC/MPI (Portable Checkpointer for MPI) to which the presented solutions are applied, and verified that it is applicable to various MPI implementations and platforms.
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Ahn, S., Kim, J., Han, S. (2003). PC/MPI: Design and Implementation of a Portable MPI Checkpointer. In: Dongarra, J., Laforenza, D., Orlando, S. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2840. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39924-7_43
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