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* FTI stands for Fault Tolerance Interface and is a library that aims to give
* computational scientists the means to perform fast and efficient multilevel
* checkpointing in large scale supercomputers. FTI leverages local storage plus
* data replication and erasure codes to provide several levels of reliability and
* performance. FTI is application-level checkpointing and allows users to select
* which datasets needs to be protected, in order to improve efficiency and avoid
* wasting space, time and energy. In addition, it offers a direct data interface
* so that users do not need to deal with files and/or directory names.  All
* metadata is managed by FTI in a transparent fashion for the user. If desired,
* users can dedicate one process per node to overlap fault tolerance workload and
* scientific computation, so that post-checkpoint tasks are executed
* asynchronously.
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*
*##########   Download, compile and install FTI (as easy as 1,2,3)   ##########
*
* 1) git clone https://github.com/leobago/fti.git
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* 2) mkdir fti/build && cd fti/build
*
* 3) cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/install/here/fti .. && make all install
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*
* NOTICE
* For the case that both, intel and gnu compilers are installed, please confi-
* gure using:
*
* cmake -C ../intel.cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/install/here/fti ..
*
* To use built-in MD5 rather than OpenSSL, please configure using:
*
* cmake -DNO_OPENSSL=true -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/install/here/fti ..
*
*##########             Configure and run a FTI example              ##########
*
* Place yourself in the examples directory which contains head distribution
* examples in both C and Fortran. Futher instructions in "examples/README".
*
*##########     Acknowledgement (send us a postal card! \(^-^)/)     ##########
*
* If you use FTI please consider sending us an email to let us know what you
* liked and what could be improved (leonardo (dot) bautista (at) bsc (dot) es), 
* your feedback is important. 
* If you use FTI for any research work, please make sure to acknowledge our paper:
* Bautista-Gomez, Leonardo, et al. "FTI: high performance fault tolerance interface 
* for hybrid systems." Proceedings of 2011 international conference for high 
* performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. ACM, 2011.  
* Finally, don't hesitate to send us a postal card to :
* Dr. Leonardo Bautista-Gomez (Leo)
* Barcelona Supercomputing Center
* Carrer de Jordi Girona, 29-31, 08034 Barcelona, SPAIN.
* Phone : +34 934 13 77 16
*
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