Question #657232 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/657232
Jan Stránský proposed the following answer: Hello, it depends, as usually, on many factors. If you have independent simulations, the most efficient from CPU point of view is to run as many simulations simultaneously as the number of cores, each one on single core (-j 1). But each simulation uses certain RAM and that might be a problem with this approach. What RAM capacity have the machines? If RAM is the problem, you can use -j 2, -j 3 or -j 4 (usually) without very significant performance influence. In that case, I would decide according to "total power" nCores*frequency. In this specific case, I don't think that for running Yade 12 or 16 cores does not make much difference (using up to -j 4), as well as the "total power" 12*3=36 and 16*2.6=41.6 is not too different.. So my resume is that according to given data, the computers are pretty comparable.. cheers Jan -- You received this question notification because your team yade-users is an answer contact for Yade. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yade-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yade-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

