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What are the posible practical uses of this technology ? I was thinking that could be useful to get "snapshots" of a system when a fatal exception is raised, t
by alfonsodev 11y ago
What are the posible practical uses of this technology ?
I was thinking that could be useful to get "snapshots" of a system when a fatal exception is raised, then download the files and practice a forensic analysis. Maybe it's too much overhead ? other uses?
- alfonsodev 11y agoor perhaps implement snapshots in a similar way than 'virtualbox' does ?
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoFast startup, obviating the need for any readiness notification (the point of execution can be guaranteed to correspond to readiness), time-travel debugging, process migration, rollback/rollforward of execution state, orthogonal persistence, etc. The original motivation for checkpointing, IIRC, was not to lose the state of really long (days, weeks...) computations. But it goes much further.
- batbomb 11y agoBatch processing with preemptable jobs.
- laurencerowe 11y agoBeing able to use AWS spot instances for long running batch processes would be great. We have some bioinformatics analysis jobs that take days to complete and this could cut their cost by ~80%.
- marcosnils 11y agoI'm interested about your use case, can you ping me at @marcosnils? Thx!.