IntelĀ® MPI Library Reference Manual for Linux* OS
Checkpoint images are large; thus, IntelĀ® MPI Library only keeps the last useful checkpoint by default. The following is an example to keep <N> previous checkpoints. The flag is -ckpoint-preserve <N>. The default value of -ckpoint-preserve is 1 (keep only the last checkpoint).
user@head $ mpiexec.hydra -ckpoint on -ckpoint-preserve <N> -ckpoint-tmp-prefix /ssd/user/ckptdir -ckpoint-prefix /home/user/ckptdir -ckpointlib blcr -n 32 -f hosts /home/user/myapp