Re: [Nelsonlab-analysis] [Nelsonlab-devel] Cluster Usage

[Michael Y. <myo...@uc...>]

What difference does it make if you want to reserve all memory on a 32 Gb node?

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On Feb 10, 2010, at 15:38, Jordan Mendler wrote:

> I have noticed that many people have been submitting jobs with -pe serial 8, when their job only uses one thread. Please only use -pe serial #, if your job is multi-threaded and using # threads.
> 
> If you are simply trying to reserve memory, use -l vf=#G instead. Please note that this is on a per core basis, so -l vf=4G -pe serial 8 will request an 8-core machine with 32G of RAM. -l vf=4G -pe serial 2 will request 8G and 2 cpu's. -l vf=4G alone will request 4GB and 1 cpu.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jordan
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