[Beowulf] Checkpointing using flash

[Mark Hahn]

> My idea is to use data parallel API. This is nothing new. In theory,

right, it's not new.  so why would it succeed this time around?

> can still be elegant looking. For example, you can have multiple
> Infiniband interfaces (some machines already have) to help counter the
> speed disparity between computing and communication.

you lost me there.  MPI has no problem using multiple interfaces...