Hi Mikhail, That's something you can achieve with Slurm, using what they call "Core Specialization". See http://slurm.schedmd.com/core_spec.html for details.
Cheers, -- Kilian On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Mikhail Kuzminsky <[email protected]> wrote: > New special supercomputer microprocessors (like IBM Power BQC and Fujitsu > SPARC64 XIfx) have 2**N +2 cores (N=4 for 1st, N=5 for 2nd), where 2 last > cores are redundant, not for computations, but only for other work w/Linux > or even for replacing of failed computational core. > > Current Intel Haswell E5 v3 may also have 18 = 2**4 +2 cores. Is there some > sense to try POWER BQC or SPARC64 XIfx ideas (not exactly), and use only 16 > Haswell cores for parallel computations ? If the answer is "yes", then how > to use this way under Linux ? > > Mikhail Kuzminsky, > Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS, > Moscow > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Kilian _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
