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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The application is designed for it. It is able to save its work and resume from that save. There’s not really any trick to this, just good software design.

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