Yep, this is very important for grid computing where a user may log into an organization's workstation and the grid job running on the workstation needs to be e

Yep, this is very important for grid computing where a user may log into an organization's workstation and the grid job running on the workstation needs to be evicted. With process checkpointing, you can resume the work later (perhaps even on another node). Without it, all of the intermediate progress is discarded.