Andries Brouwer wrote:

But let me stress that I also consider the earlier situation
unacceptable. It is really bad to lose a few weeks of computation.

Shouldn't the application be backing up intermediate results to disk periodically? Power outages do occur, as do bus faults, electrical glitches, dead fans, etc.


Chris
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