on Wed, 06 Dec 2017 21:39:20 +1100 Chris Samuel wrote:
If this is, as I suspect is likely, bioinformatics code it could well
be that
it is a pipeline type application and only part of the application may
be able
to make use of parallelism (and then might not be very good at it).
Exactly. Super frustrating to set something like '--cpus=40' and then
watch the resulting heap of programs sit for long periods of time
(hours, not seconds) running only on a single CPU.
Regards,
David Mathog
mat...@caltech.edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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