----- "John Hearns" <hear...@googlemail.com> wrote: > SGI Altix have 'bootcpusets' which means you can slice > off one or two processors to take care of OS housekeeping > tasks,
Now that cpusets have been in the mainline kernel for some time you should be able to do this with any modern distro. I contemplated doing this on our Barcelona cluster, but sacrificing 1 core in 8 was a bit too much of a high price to pay. But people with higher core counts per node might find it attractive. cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel - (03) 9925 4751 - Systems Manager The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing P.O. Box 201, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia VPAC is a not-for-profit Registered Research Agency _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
