[Carpet] checkpoint all timelevels ?
Thomas Radke
tradke at aei.mpg.de
Mon Sep 11 16:49:36 CEST 2006
Ian Hawke wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 16:34 +0200, Thomas Radke wrote:
>
>
>>for groups with multiple timelevels, PUGH checkpoints all but the last
>>(oldest) one because during the first timelevel rotation it is discarded
>>anyway. Carpet currently checkpoints all timelevels. Why is this necessary ?
>
>
> Restriction may use all active timelevels (up to 3). There is no good
> algorithm for generating past timelevels (i.e., no way of guaranteeing
> identical results) other than doing the evolution. So they all need to
> be stored.
But I thought that restriction isn't needed when recovering initial data
? At least it's not there in our nice Carpet scheduling picture
http://www.carpetcode.org/doc/scheduling.pdf (page 9).
--
Cheers, Thomas.
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