- Safety feature to avoid HDF5 files from being corrupted
  * Leo requests a feature that would allow the user to e.g., generate one
    output file per restart. With kuibit, there was interested in switching from
    the ASCII data files to the HDF5 in our research group. However, in a recent
    simulation it turned out that a node failure caused a crash as one of the
    HDF5 was being written to and we lost all data for an important
    gridfunction. If one HDF5 file was written per restart (or another safety
    feature was in place), then this would have not been an issue, as only one
    of the chunks of data would have been corrupted. Leo will open a ticket
    about this.

Isn't this done automatically when using simfactory? I have my hdf5 data written in the separate output-00?? directories (the ones generated by symfactory at each restart) so that if one run has problems I do not lose all the data.

Cheers,
Bruno


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Prof. Bruno Giacomazzo
Department of Physics
University of Milano-Bicocca
Piazza della Scienza 3
20126 Milano
Italy

email: bruno.giacomazzo@unimib.it
phone: (+39) 02 6448 2321

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