Running multiple processes on the same host

[Chris Samuel]

On Saturday 04 March 2006 04:59, Pete Wyckoff wrote:

> The problem is, some sites use multi-CPU nodes and will schedule individual
> processors from those nodes.

Check!

> They don't want a user running more than one thread on his assigned
> processor as that would interfere with other jobs on the same node.

Damn right. :-)

If you *do* want to allow oversubscription of nodes there's actually a fairly 
easy way to do that through PBS, and that's to increase the number of CPUs 
that the server thinks the nodes have in the nodes file..

cheers,
Chris
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 Christopher Samuel - (03)9925 4751 - VPAC Deputy Systems Manager
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