> Am 10.04.2017 um 17:27 schrieb r...@open-mpi.org:
> 
> 
>> On Apr 10, 2017, at 1:37 AM, Reuti <re...@staff.uni-marburg.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.
> 
> You won’t see a difference if the NUMA and socket are identical in terms of 
> the cores they cover.

Ok, thx.


>> 
>> -- 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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