in a way arent multicore processors taking for example 4 single core machines and merging them into one with 1 for core processor?
On 4/24/09, Glen Beane <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 4/24/09 3:03 AM, "Jonathan Aquilina" <[email protected]> wrote: > > im impressed with the different views everyone has. i dont know how many of > you would agree with me a multicore processor lets say a quad is 4 nodes in > one. could one say it like that? > > I would not. To me a node is a physical thing. One or more processor(s), > RAM, running its own OS instance. I have a cluster of N nodes with M cores > per node, or N*M total cores. > > In your example, N is 1 and M is 4. > > One thing that annoys me is when an intern working on an MPI program keeps > saying "node" when they really mean MPI rank since we are long past the days > where we have a 1 to 1 mapping between MPI ranks and nodes (we don't do any > kind of hybrid thing where we have 1 multi-threaded process per node). > > > > -- > Glen L. Beane > Software Engineer > The Jackson Laboratory > Phone (207) 288-6153 > > -- Jonathan Aquilina _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
