RFC: Checkpoint-Restart for R/HPC (DMTCP)
As an administrator for an HPC cluster, I'd say dmtcp for R would be very useful. Some HPC clusters (including our :) implement a "lowpri"/"opportunistic" queue, where jobs can be requeued any time a higher priority job needs the resources. An R package that implemented dmtcp integration would be very usable also for many users not using BioConductor, so I would suggest creating a package that is uploaded to CRAN, so one wouldn't have to install BioConductor to use it.
Regards, Bj?rn-Helge Mevik