Checkpointing & Recovery

Thorn IOHDF5 can also be used for creating HDF5 checkpoint files and recovering from such files later on.

Checkpoint routines are scheduled at several timebins so that you can save the current state of your simulation after the initial data phase, during evolution, or at termination. Checkpointing for thorn IOHDF5 is enabled by setting the parameter IOHDF5::checkpoint = "yes".

A recovery routine is registered with thorn IOUtil in order to restart a new simulation from a given HDF5 checkpoint. The very same recovery mechanism is used to implement a filereader functionality to feed back data into Cactus.

Checkpointing and recovery are controlled by corresponding checkpoint/recovery parameters of thorn IOUtil (for a description of these parameters please refer to this thorn's documentation). The parameter IO::checkpoint_every_walltime_hours is not (yet) supported.