On Mar 26, 2014, at 6:43 AM, Andreas Haupt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Reuti,
> 
> On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 11:29 +0100, Reuti wrote:
>>> AFAIK this is done on a best-effort basis. As long as 4 consecutive
>>> cores are available, jobs will be limited that way. If not, jobs might
>>> even be bound to cores spread over different cpus on multi-socket
>> 
>> My understanding is, that there is no binding in certain cases. There are 
>> two occurrences in `man qsub` section "-binding / linear" reading "If this 
>> is not possible then binding is not done." Binding in SGE is a kind of soft 
>> request, which might or might not be fulfilled.

As Reuti mentioned binding is a soft request in SGE but UGE works differently.  
It is a hard request and is controlled by the qmaster not just the execd as in 
other versions of Grid Engine.  Daniel Gruber can explain it better than me 
because he implemented it.

Bill.

> 
> Just have access to the UGE man page (hope, it's ok to post parts of it
> here ...):
> 
> ---
>              linear means that Univa Grid Engine tries to  bind  the  job  on
>              amount  successive  cores.  If  socket  and core is omitted then
>              Univa Grid Engine first allocates successive cores on the  first
>              empty socket found.  Empty means that there are no jobs bound to
>              the socket by Univa Grid Engine.  If this is not  possible or is
>              not  sufficient  Univa Grid Engine tries to find (further) cores
>              on the socket with the most unbound cores and  so  on.   If  the
>              amount  of  allocated  cores  is  lower than requested cores, no
>              binding is done for the job.
> ---
> 
> For me this sounds more like the behaviour I suggested, but my
> understanding might be wrong here ... Maybe there's even a difference in
> the implementation between UGE and SoGE/OGS now.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andreas
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