How do they upgrade a computer, that has been calculating something for decades?

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If a computer has been for example serching for a really big prime number for decades, how do they upgrade it. Do they stop the calculation or what?

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Essentially the same way that you can work on a Word document even if you reboot your computer. It will be able to keep a “save” of what it was doing and continue after the maintenance is complete.

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