> On Apr 9, 2017, at 1:49 PM, Reuti <re...@staff.uni-marburg.de> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Am 09.04.2017 um 16:35 schrieb r...@open-mpi.org <mailto:r...@open-mpi.org>:
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>> There has been no change in the policy - however, if you are oversubscribed, 
>> we did fix a bug to ensure that we don’t auto-bind in that situation
>> 
>> Can you pass along your cmd line? So far as I can tell, it still seems to be 
>> working.
> 
> I'm not sure whether it was the case with 1.8, but according to the man page 
> it binds now to sockets for number of processes > 2 . And this can lead the 
> effect that one sometimes may notice a drop in performance when just this 
> socket has other jobs running (by accident).
> 
> So, this is solved - I wasn't aware of the binding by socket.
> 
> But I can't see a binding by core for number of processes <= 2. Does it mean 
> 2 per node or 2 overall for the `mpiexec`? 

It’s 2 processes overall

> 
> - -- Reuti
> 
> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 9, 2017, at 3:40 AM, Reuti <re...@staff.uni-marburg.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> While I noticed an automatic core binding in Open MPI 1.8 (which in a 
>>> shared cluster may lead to oversubscribing of cores), I can't spot this any 
>>> longer in the 2.x series. So the question arises:
>>> 
>>> - Was this a general decision to no longer enable automatic core binding?
>>> 
>>> First I thought it might be because of:
>>> 
>>> - We define plm_rsh_agent=foo in $OMPI_ROOT/etc/openmpi-mca-params.conf
>>> - We compiled with --with-sge
>>> 
>>> But also started on the command line by `ssh` to the nodes, there seems no 
>>> automatic core binding to take place any longer.
>>> 
>>> -- Reuti
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