I saw the following problem posed somewhere - can anyone shed some light? Thanks.
I have a cluster of 8-sock quad core systems running Redhat 5.2. It seems that whenever I try to run multiple MPI jobs to a single node all the jobs end up running on the same processors. For example, if I were to submit 4 8-way jobs to a single box they all end up in CPUs 0 to 7, leaving 8 to 31 idle. I then tried all sorts of I_MPI_PIN_PROCESSOR_LIST combinations but short of explicitly listing out the processors at each run, they all end up still hanging on to CPUs 0-7. Browsing through the mpiexec script, I realise that it is doing a taskset on each run. As my jobs are all submitted through a scheduler (PBS in this case) I cannot possibly know at job submission time which CPUs are not used. So is there a simple way to tell mpiexec to set the taskset affinity correctly at each run so that it will choose only the idle processors? Thanks. -- Regards, Peter Teoh
