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- For high throughput jobs the use of HT can increase overall throughput by keeping cores active as jobs come and go. These jobs can treat each HT core as a processor.
- For multithreaded applications, HT will provide more efficient handling of threads. You must make sure to request the appropriate number of job slots. Generally, the number of job slots requested should equal the number of cores that will be running.
- For non-threaded CPU bound processes that can keep a core busy all of the time, you probably want to only run one process per core, and not run processes on HT cores. This can be accomplished by taking advantage of the Linux kernel's ability to bind processes to cores. The Argon resource manager will launch jobs with core binding by default so that processes will land on cores. In In order to prevent minimize processes from landing running on the HT cores of a machine make sure that only half of the total number of cores are used. See below for more details but requesting twice the number of job slots as the number of cores that will be used will accomplish this. A good example of this type of job is non-threaded MPI jobs, but really any non-threaded job.
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If your job does not use the system openmpi, or does not use MPI, then any desired core binding will need to be set up with whatever mechanism the software uses. Otherwise, there will be no core binding. Again, that may not be a major issue. If your job does not work well with HT then run on a number of cores equal to half of the number of slots requested and the OS scheduler will minimize contention.
new SGE utilities
While SoGE is very similar to previous versions of SGE there are some new utilities that people may find of interest. There are manual pages for each of these.
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