Hola Felip, You can do that safely.We have some nodes configured this way, reducing the number of sockets or the number of processors and we didn't found any problem.
Carles Fenoy On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Felip Moll <lip...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am wondering if I can set the number of cpus to a lower number than the > real number of cpus. I want to do this to limit the number of concurrent > cores accessing memory. > > Is it correct to set something like this on slurm.conf?: > > NodeName=pez001 RealMemory=32111 Sockets=2 CoresPerSocket=2 ThreadsPerCore=1 > > By this way, the node pez001 will display 4 cores, but it has 8 physical > cores. > > > I am asking it because if you set the memory to a level different than the > real value, the node becames down. > > > Thank you a lot. -- -- Carles Fenoy
