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diff --git a/devel/chkpt/DESCR b/devel/chkpt/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..9f536985864 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/chkpt/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Chkpt provides a simple interface (C and Fortran) to user-level +checkpointing. ``Checkpointing'' describes the action to periodically +save process information on permanent storage (on hard disk, +typically). After a system failure a process may be continued from +the saved state, from the checkpoint. |