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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For a program that takes years to complete you write the program in such a way that it’s constantly writing output and you can pause and save the state of it at any time.

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