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- | Jobs using more than 2 GB per process can be executed in one of the parallel environments | ||
- | * mpich : 2 GB per process | ||
- | * mpich8: 4 GB per process | ||
- | * mpich4: 8 GB per process | ||
- | * mpich2: 16 GB per process | ||
- | * mpich1: 32 GB per process | ||
- | Please keep in mind that on VSC-2 jobs are node-exclusive and therefore your contingent of CPU-hours will be computed by full nodes and are therefore significantly more expensive. | ||
- | For example, < | ||
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- | == what to include in your jobscript == | ||
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- | mpirun -machinefile $TMPDIR/ | ||
- | The parallel environment option (pe) includes the type of the requested environment (mpich2) and the number of processes (4). The number of processes per node (ppn) is 2. | ||
- | The machine file and the variable NSLOTS_REDUCED are automatically modified such that they reflect the number of slots requested (4), whereas the variable NSLOTS is set to the number of physical cores allocated in the queueing system. This latter number NSLOTS corresponds to the cost calculation in the previous paragraph: | ||
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- | === Hybrid MPI/OpenMP jobs === | ||
- | < | ||
- | export OMP_NUM_THREADS=8 | ||
- | mpirun -machinefile $TMPDIR/ | ||
- | In this example, two nodes are reserved in the grid engine. On both nodes 2 processes each spanning 8 threads are started. | ||
==== ad 3. increased virtual memory ==== | ==== ad 3. increased virtual memory ==== | ||
- | Some programs allocate more memory than they use. This was especially true in old FORTRAN 77 programs, which had to decide at compile time how much memory will be used. These programs are allowed to allocate 50% more memory than available by '''# | + | Some programs allocate more memory than they use. This was especially true in old FORTRAN 77 programs, which had to decide at compile time how much memory will be used. These programs are allowed to allocate 50% more memory than available by ''# |
==== ad 4. swap space (still experimental) ==== | ==== ad 4. swap space (still experimental) ==== | ||
A novel feature of the VSC-2 is remote swap space (implemented using 'SCSI RDMA Protocol', | A novel feature of the VSC-2 is remote swap space (implemented using 'SCSI RDMA Protocol', |