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restart.sph and outxxx.sph
We have two different routines which write a binary file containing
all the information necessary to restart the run at a later time.
Subroutine CHKPT writes such a file every NITCH
iterations, where the parameter is set in the CHKPT routine. This
file, whose format is given in the DUMP subroutine, stores all
the important scalar parameters for the run, and then stores all the
particle-based quantities, except for the neighbor list information,
which can be reconstructed from scratch during a new calculation.
The restart.sph file is overwritten each time, to save on memory.
The code is also set to checkpoint every time DTOUT time units
pass, writing a file named outxxx.sph, where ``xxx'' is set as a
3-digit integer equal to NOUT, which is iterated every time the
file is written. These files are useful for recording and
reconstructing the progress of a run later.
Joshua Faber
2003-06-28