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Josh Hursey e12ca48cd9 A number of C/R enhancements per RFC below:
http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2010/07/8240.php

Documentation:
  http://osl.iu.edu/research/ft/

Major Changes: 
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 * Added C/R-enabled Debugging support. 
   Enabled with the --enable-crdebug flag. See the following website for more information: 
   http://osl.iu.edu/research/ft/crdebug/ 
 * Added Stable Storage (SStore) framework for checkpoint storage 
   * 'central' component does a direct to central storage save 
   * 'stage' component stages checkpoints to central storage while the application continues execution. 
     * 'stage' supports offline compression of checkpoints before moving (sstore_stage_compress) 
     * 'stage' supports local caching of checkpoints to improve automatic recovery (sstore_stage_caching) 
 * Added Compression (compress) framework to support 
 * Add two new ErrMgr recovery policies 
   * {{{crmig}}} C/R Process Migration 
   * {{{autor}}} C/R Automatic Recovery 
 * Added the {{{ompi-migrate}}} command line tool to support the {{{crmig}}} ErrMgr component 
 * Added CR MPI Ext functions (enable them with {{{--enable-mpi-ext=cr}}} configure option) 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_Checkpoint}}} (Fixes trac:2342) 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_Restart}}} 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_Migrate}}} (may need some more work for mapping rules) 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_INC_register_callback}}} (Fixes trac:2192) 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_Quiesce_start}}} 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_Quiesce_checkpoint}}} 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_Quiesce_end}}} 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_self_register_checkpoint_callback}}} 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_self_register_restart_callback}}} 
   * {{{OMPI_CR_self_register_continue_callback}}} 
 * The ErrMgr predicted_fault() interface has been changed to take an opal_list_t of ErrMgr defined types. This will allow us to better support a wider range of fault prediction services in the future. 
 * Add a progress meter to: 
   * FileM rsh (filem_rsh_process_meter) 
   * SnapC full (snapc_full_progress_meter) 
   * SStore stage (sstore_stage_progress_meter) 
 * Added 2 new command line options to ompi-restart 
   * --showme : Display the full command line that would have been exec'ed. 
   * --mpirun_opts : Command line options to pass directly to mpirun. (Fixes trac:2413) 
 * Deprecated some MCA params: 
   * crs_base_snapshot_dir deprecated, use sstore_stage_local_snapshot_dir 
   * snapc_base_global_snapshot_dir deprecated, use sstore_base_global_snapshot_dir 
   * snapc_base_global_shared deprecated, use sstore_stage_global_is_shared 
   * snapc_base_store_in_place deprecated, replaced with different components of SStore 
   * snapc_base_global_snapshot_ref deprecated, use sstore_base_global_snapshot_ref 
   * snapc_base_establish_global_snapshot_dir deprecated, never well supported 
   * snapc_full_skip_filem deprecated, use sstore_stage_skip_filem 

Minor Changes: 
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 * Fixes trac:1924 : {{{ompi-restart}}} now recognizes path prefixed checkpoint handles and does the right thing. 
 * Fixes trac:2097 : {{{ompi-info}}} should now report all available CRS components 
 * Fixes trac:2161 : Manual checkpoint movement. A user can 'mv' a checkpoint directory from the original location to another and still restart from it. 
 * Fixes trac:2208 : Honor various TMPDIR varaibles instead of forcing {{{/tmp}}} 
 * Move {{{ompi_cr_continue_like_restart}}} to {{{orte_cr_continue_like_restart}}} to be more flexible in where this should be set. 
 * opal_crs_base_metadata_write* functions have been moved to SStore to support a wider range of metadata handling functionality. 
 * Cleanup the CRS framework and components to work with the SStore framework. 
 * Cleanup the SnapC framework and components to work with the SStore framework (cleans up these code paths considerably). 
 * Add 'quiesce' hook to CRCP for a future enhancement. 
 * We now require a BLCR version that supports {{{cr_request_file()}}} or {{{cr_request_checkpoint()}}} in order to make the code more maintainable. Note that {{{cr_request_file}}} has been deprecated since 0.7.0, so we prefer to use {{{cr_request_checkpoint()}}}. 
 * Add optional application level INC callbacks (registered through the CR MPI Ext interface). 
 * Increase the {{{opal_cr_thread_sleep_wait}}} parameter to 1000 microseconds to make the C/R thread less aggressive. 
 * {{{opal-restart}}} now looks for cache directories before falling back on stable storage when asked. 
 * {{{opal-restart}}} also support local decompression before restarting 
 * {{{orte-checkpoint}}} now uses the SStore framework to work with the metadata 
 * {{{orte-restart}}} now uses the SStore framework to work with the metadata 
 * Remove the {{{orte-restart}}} preload option. This was removed since the user only needs to select the 'stage' component in order to support this functionality. 
 * Since the '-am' parameter is saved in the metadata, {{{ompi-restart}}} no longer hard codes {{{-am ft-enable-cr}}}. 
 * Fix {{{hnp}}} ErrMgr so that if a previous component in the stack has 'fixed' the problem, then it should be skipped. 
 * Make sure to decrement the number of 'num_local_procs' in the orted when one goes away. 
 * odls now checks the SStore framework to see if it needs to load any checkpoint files before launching (to support 'stage'). This separates the SStore logic from the --preload-[binary|files] options. 
 * Add unique IDs to the named pipes established between the orted and the app in SnapC. This is to better support migration and automatic recovery activities. 
 * Improve the checks for 'already checkpointing' error path. 
 * A a recovery output timer, to show how long it takes to restart a job 
 * Do a better job of cleaning up the old session directory on restart. 
 * Add a local module to the autor and crmig ErrMgr components. These small modules prevent the 'orted' component from attempting a local recovery (Which does not work for MPI apps at the moment) 
 * Add a fix for bounding the checkpointable region between MPI_Init and MPI_Finalize. 

This commit was SVN r23587.

The following Trac tickets were found above:
  Ticket 1924 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/1924
  Ticket 2097 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2097
  Ticket 2161 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2161
  Ticket 2192 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2192
  Ticket 2208 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2208
  Ticket 2342 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2342
  Ticket 2413 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/2413
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.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2004-2010 The Trustees of Indiana University and Indiana
.\" University Research and Technology
.\" Corporation. All rights reserved.
.\" Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" Man page for ORTE's SnapC Functionality
.\"
.\" .TH name section center-footer left-footer center-header
.TH ORTE_SNAPC 7 "#OMPI_DATE#" "#PACKAGE_VERSION#" "#PACKAGE_NAME#"
.\" **************************
.\" Name Section
.\" **************************
.SH NAME
.
ORTE_SNAPC \- Open RTE MCA Snapshot Coordination (SnapC) Framework: Overview of
Open RTE's SnapC framework, and selected modules. #PACKAGE_NAME# #PACKAGE_VERSION#
.
.\" **************************
.\" Description Section
.\" **************************
.SH DESCRIPTION
.
.PP
Open RTE can coordinate the generation of a global snapshot of a parallel job
from many distributed local snapshots. The components in this framework
determine how to: Initiate the checkpoint of the parallel application, gather
together the many distributed local snapshots, and provide the user with a
global snapshot handle reference that can be used to restart the parallel
application.
.
.\" **************************
.\" General Process Requirements Section
.\" **************************
.SH GENERAL PROCESS REQUIREMENTS
.PP
In order for a process to use the Open RTE SnapC components it must adhear to a
few programmatic requirements.
.PP
First, the program must call \fIORTE_INIT\fR early in its execution. This
should only be called once, and it is not possible to checkpoint the process
without it first having called this function.
.PP
The program must call \fIORTE_FINALIZE\fR before termination.
.PP
A user may initiate a checkpoint of a parallel application by using the
orte-checkpoint(1) and orte-restart(1) commands.
.
.\" **********************************
.\" Available Components Section
.\" **********************************
.SH AVAILABLE COMPONENTS
.PP
Open RTE ships with one SnapC component: \fIfull\fR.
.
.PP
The following MCA parameters apply to all components:
.
.TP 4
snapc_base_verbose
Set the verbosity level for all components. Default is 0, or silent except on error.
.
.\" full Component
.\" ******************
.SS full SnapC Component
.PP
The \fIfull\fR component gathers together the local snapshots to the disk local
to the Head Node Process (HNP) before completing the checkpoint of the process. This
component does not currently support replicated HNPs, or timer based gathering
of local snapshot data. This is a 3-tiered hierarchy of coordinators.
.
.PP
The \fIfull\fR component has the following MCA parameters:
.
.TP 4
snapc_full_priority
The component's priority to use when selecting the most appropriate component
for a run.
.
.TP 4
snapc_full_verbose
Set the verbosity level for this component. Default is 0, or silent except on
error.
.
.\" Special 'none' option
.\" ************************
.SS none SnapC Component
.PP
The \fInone\fP component simply selects no SnapC component. All of the SnapC
function calls return immediately with ORTE_SUCCESS.
.
.PP
This component is the last component to be selected by default. This means that if
another component is available, and the \fInone\fP component was not explicity
requested then ORTE will attempt to activate all of the available components
before falling back to this component.
.
.\" **************************
.\" See Also Section
.\" **************************
.
.SH SEE ALSO
orte-checkpoint(1), orte-restart(1), opal-checkpoint(1), opal-restart(1),
orte_filem(7), opal_crs(7)
.