> Am 10.04.2017 um 01:58 schrieb r...@open-mpi.org:
> 
> Let me try to clarify. If you launch a job that has only 1 or 2 processes in 
> it (total), then we bind to core by default. This is done because a job that 
> small is almost always some kind of benchmark.

Yes, I see. But only if libnuma was compiled in AFAICS.


> If there are more than 2 processes in the job (total), then we default to 
> binding to NUMA (if NUMA’s are present - otherwise, to socket) across the 
> entire job.

Mmh - can I spot a difference in --report-bindings between these two? To me 
both looks like being bound to socket.

-- Reuti


> You can always override these behaviors.
> 
>> On Apr 9, 2017, at 3:45 PM, Reuti <re...@staff.uni-marburg.de> wrote:
>> 
>>>> 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
>> 
>> Having a round-robin allocation in the cluster, this might not be what was 
>> intended (to bind only one or two cores per exechost)?
>> 
>> Obviously the default changes (from --bind-to core to --bin-to socket), 
>> whether I compiled Open MPI with or w/o libnuma (I wanted to get rid of the 
>> warning in the output only – now it works). But "--bind-to core" I could 
>> also use w/o libnuma and it worked, I got only that warning in addition 
>> about the memory couldn't be bound.
>> 
>> BTW: I always had to use -ldl when using `mpicc`. Now, that I compiled in 
>> libnuma, this necessity is gone.
>> 
>> -- Reuti
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