Bug#555714: mpich2: Please add support for blcr

[Pavan Balaji]

On 10/23/2010 12:40 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 11/11/09 at 10:15 -0600, Pavan Balaji wrote:
>> We had a short discussion on this within the MPICH group. We believe
>> that we will be able to modify the code such that enabling it at
>> configure time should not add any additional performance overhead
>> for applications that don't need this support. So starting
>> mpich2-1.3, you should be able to configure it in by default.
>
> Hi Pavan,
>
> What's the conclusion on this? Should I enable checkpointing by default?
> (Context: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=555714)

There will be some overhead in enabling this, but I think that should be 
minimal. I'm checking with our developer who worked on this. I'll get 
back to you.

  -- Pavan

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Pavan Balaji
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