Bug#610653: ITP: dmtcp -- Checkpoint/Restart functionality for Linux processes

[kapil@ccs.neu.edu]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: kapil@ccs.neu.edu


* Package name    : dmtcp
  Version         : 1.2.0
  Upstream Author : Kapil Arya <kapil@ccs.neu.edu>
* URL             : http://dmtcp.sourceforge.net/
* License         : LGPL
  Programming Lang: C, C++
  Description     : Checkpoint/Restart functionality for Linux processes

DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded Checkpointing) is a tool to
transparently checkpointing the state of an arbitrary group of programs
spread across many machines and connected by sockets. It runs directly
on the user binary executable, without needing to modify either the user
binary or the operating system.

Among the applications supported by DMTCP are OpenMPI, MATLAB, Python,
Perl, and many programming languages and shell scripting languages.
Starting with release 1.2.0, DMTCP also supports GNU screen sessions,
including vim/cscope and emacs. With the use of TightVNC, it can also
checkpoint and restart X-Windows applications, as long as they do not
use extensions (e.g.: no OpenGL, no video).