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SCD News > Update: February 9, 2004

Nighthawk nodes available on blackforest

Certain jobs will run faster on these nodes


 

U sers are encouraged to submit jobs requiring 8–16 CPUs in the underutilized queues of com_nhec, csl_nhec, com_nh and csl_nh in the blackforest complex. Jobs submitted in these queues will be scheduled on one of our two16-CPU Nighthawk nodes.

Due to larger communication bandwidth and lower latencies over shared memory 8–16-task, we expect these 8–16 CPU jobs jobs to run faster on Nighthawk nodes than on the equivalent 2–4 Winterhawk nodes. However, users must change their LoadLeveler scripts to specify:

#@ network.MPI = css,shared,ip
#@ environment = MP_SHARED_MEMORY=true

For details, please see:
http://www.scd.ucar.edu/docs/ibm/ref/comm.html

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