Paul Jackson wrote: > The fair sharing model (such as in CKRM) that strives for maximum > utilization of resources respecting priorities and min/max limits is > (I suppose) quite useful for certain workloads and customers. > > The hardwall NUMA placement model (such as in cpusets) that strives > for maximum processor and memory isolation between jobs, preferring > to leave allocated resources unused rather than trying to share them, > is also quite useful for some. Customers with 256 thread, one or > two day long run time, -very- tightly coupled huge OpenMP Fortran > jobs that need to complete within a few percent of the same time, > every runtime, demand it.
Hypothetically, if you can guarantee that those threads get a specified amount of time, but may possibly get *more* cpu time and thus finish faster, what's the problem? Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ ckrm-tech mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ckrm-tech
