Starting early in the 1.7 series, we began to bind procs by default to cores 
when -np <= 2, and to sockets if np > 2. Is it possible this is what you are 
seeing?


On Aug 21, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Andrej Prsa <aprs...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear devels,
> 
> I have been trying out 1.8.2rcs recently and found a show-stopping
> problem on our cluster. Running any job with any number of processors
> larger than 32 will always employ only 32 cores per node (our nodes
> have 48 cores). We are seeing identical behavior with 1.8.2rc4,
> 1.8.2rc2, and 1.8.1. Running identical programs shows no such issues
> with version 1.6.5, where all 48 cores per node are working. While our
> system is running torque/maui, the problem is evident by running mpirun
> directly.
> 
> I am attaching hwloc topology in case that helps -- I am aware of a
> buggy bios code that trips hwloc, but I don't know if that might be an
> issue or not. I am happy to help debugging if you can provide me with
> guidance.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrej
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