On 5/4/18, 7:36 AM, "Beowulf on behalf of Chris Samuel"
<beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org on behalf of ch...@csamuel.org> wrote:
On Thursday, 3 May 2018 11:53:14 PM AEST John Hearns via Beowulf wrote:
> The best successes I have seen on clusters is where the heavy parallel
> applications get exclusive compute nodes. Cleaner, you get all the memory
> and storage bandwidth and easy to clean up. Hell, reboot the things after
> each job. You got an exclusive node.
You are describing the BlueGene/Q philosophy there John. :-)
This idea tends to break when you throw GPUs in to the mix as there
(hopefully) you only need a couple of cores on the node to shovel data
around
and the GPU does the gruntwork. That means you'll generally have cores
left
over that could be doing something useful.
>> but compare the "value" of the computational work those otherwise unused
>> cores can do versus the "cost" of a more complex system management
>> environment. Isn't the whole idea that "hardware is cheap, wetware is
>> expensive"
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