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by martin_vejmelka 1639 days ago
Just pointing out that those are most likely just the days the files were saved. There could still be some unlucky souls that ran computations for several days/weeks that happened to terminate on those days (and store the results). Those people could lose significantly more than a day and a half. On the flip side, HP jobs tend to be frequently checkpointed unless the storage cost is prohibitive for the type of job.
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Is checkpointing really that common anymore. When I talked to my local HPC admins they gave me the impression that nobody does it anymore