Hi Alexander, Alexander Grund <alexander.gr...@tu-dresden.de> writes:
> Hi, > > we have a Power9 partition with 44 processors having 4 cores each > totaling 176. > > `scontrol show node <node>` shows "CoresPerSocket=22" and "CPUTot=176" > which confuses me. Especially as `whypending` reports e.g. "172 cores > free: 1" What's 'whypending'? > So what are "CPUs" and what are "Cores" to SLURM? Why does it mix up those 2? This is just historical as far as I can tell. I think 'CPU' almost always means 'core'. > Most importantly: Does this mean `--cpus-per-task` can be as high as > 176 on this node and `--mem-per-cpu` can be up to the reported > "RealMemory"/176? Yes. Cheers, Loris -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de
