Job checkpoint and restart

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Job checkpoint and restart

While TORQUE has had a job checkpoint and restart capability for many years, this was tied to machine specific features. Now TORQUE supports BLCR — an architecture independent package that provides for process checkpoint and restart.

The support for BLCR is only for serial jobs, not for any MPI type jobs.

This section contains these topics:

Introduction to BLCR
Configuration files and scripts
Starting a checkpointable job
Checkpointing a job
Restarting a job
Acceptance tests