Kiki<div><br></div><div>There was a discussion regarding where to place checkpoint files. I originally intended them to reside within the corresponding output-NNNN directories, and this required setting the checkpoint directory to $parfile, same as the output directory. However, since then others made the point that they rather wanted all checkpoint files of a simulation in the same directory, because this enables Cactus to remove the checkpoint files of previous restarts -- this makes restarts less independent, but can save disk space. This requires setting the checkpoint directory to &quot;../checkpoints&quot;.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I don&#39;t recall what changes were necessary in Simfactory to support this, but there may have been some.</div><div><br></div><div>However, Simfactory always expected all output directories to be set to $parfile, or to subdirectories of $parfile. It may be that things worked without doing so, but I never used or tested this myself.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-erik<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Kyriaki Dionysopoulou <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kdionyso@aei.mpg.de">kdionyso@aei.mpg.de</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi all,<br>
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I recently updated my simfactory and since then I&#39;m not able to restart from a checkpoint if I don&#39;t specify the checkpoint output and recover directories explicitly in the parfile. Since before I updated I was able to do that without specifying the checkpoint output/recover directories I&#39;m just wondering if there is an intentional change in  simfactory&#39;s default behavior or if this is a bug that I should report  on TRAC. I attach a simple test parfile that reproduces the problem and a basic thornlist.<br>

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The default location for the checkpoint output/recover directories should be output-XXXX.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Kiki<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Erik Schnetter &lt;<a href="mailto:schnetter@cct.lsu.edu" target="_blank">schnetter@cct.lsu.edu</a>&gt;   <a href="http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~eschnett/" target="_blank">http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~eschnett/</a><br>
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