Re: [SSI-users] How much CPU power & memory per node?
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From: John H. <john@Calva.COM> - 2009-10-07 14:40:33
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Advice Pro wrote: > A > http://www.nabble.com/Does-OpenSSI-combine-CPU-cores-for-multithreaded-applications--td23124003.html > question that I had asked was answered that "All threads of a process must > run on the same node at the moment". I think this means that only one > multicore CPU is ideal per node. > ??? You need at least one cpu per node, of course. :-) You can use many as you feel like. Multi-threaded apps run all threads on the same node. (This is because sharing writable memory between nodes is pretty inefficient). If you write your app as "multi-process" rather than "multi-thread", communicating using pipes, sockets or queues instead of shared memory then you can distribute your app across multiple nodes. > Where on OpenSSI.org does it state such things > |