On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Thomas Paul wrote: > I plan to do some "big" 3D-FDTD calculation using meep. This shall be > done on a cluster machine at a computational center where just a limited > calculation time in one piece (about 4h) is granted. So the calculation > must be split up into several time intervals. For this it is necessary > to "freeze" the complete calculation state (fields, epsilon, sources, > ..) of meep at some certain time step - to reentry the calculation later > to go further. My question: Does meep support such kind of feature? I > think there are no scheme-functions for this purpose but maybe there's a > way using the C++ interface (and some low-level functions)?
My feeling is that this problem is best solved at the OS level, not at the application level. Google "software checkpointing linux" for the possibilities using free software. _______________________________________________ meep-discuss mailing list meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss
