Am 06.09.2012 um 13:21 schrieb Schmidt U.:

>> <snip>
> If h_vmem is defined in the script, what sense is then an  additional vf 
> option in the script ? The h_vmem has per default higher value than vf, so it 
> must fit first to let the job run.

If you want to avoid swapping, both should have the same value anyway.


>> 
>>> pe:
>>> pe_name            openmp_6
>>> slots              3168
>>> user_lists         standard
>>> xuser_lists        NONE
>>> start_proc_args    /bin/true
>>> stop_proc_args     /bin/true
>>> allocation_rule    6
>>> control_slaves     TRUE
>>> job_is_first_task  FALSE
>>> urgency_slots      min
>>> accounting_summary FALSE
>>> 
>>> job script:
>>> #$ -N test
>>> #$ -cwd
>>> #$ -o $JOB_ID.out
>>> #$ -e $JOB_ID.err
>>> #$ -l h_rt=150:00:00
>>> #$ -l vf=2.3G
>>> #$ -l h_vmem=3G
>>> #$ -pe openmp_6 72
>>> export OMP_NUM_THREADS=6
>>> export MKL_NUM_THREADS=($OMP_NUM_THREADS)
>>> mpirun --mca btl openib,self -pernode -np 12 /my_mixed_job
>> With this you will get 12 machines, and on each you can use 6 threads. As 
>> all (threads on a machine) will work on the same memory, this shouldn't be a 
>> problem. But you are using MKL with $OMP_NUM_THREADS too, which could create 
>> locally 36 processes as a result. Therefore I use unthreaded versions of 
>> MKL/ACML/ATLAS usually.
> Thanks for that hint, as a workaround a could check all scripts for 
> MKL_NUM_THREADS and set it to 1 by jsv ?

Yes.

But you could also try the opposite, i.e. OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 and 
MKL_NUM_THREADS=$NSLOTS

Depends of the application what's better.

-- Reuti


> Udo
>> 
>> -- Reuti
>> 
>> 
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