Hi Reuti, William and Gowtham.

So, I set 'slots' for each node which allow our users to benefit the
additional threads or I create a script based on William idea to avoid the
need to reboot all my nodes and turn HT off in the BIOS ?

Both solutions are quite interesting.

Thanks a lot,

Best regards.
Rémy

2016-07-19 12:34 GMT+02:00 Reuti <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> > Am 19.07.2016 um 10:22 schrieb Rémy Dernat <[email protected]>:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have many nodes with hyperthreading enable.
> > I would like to know if modifying the complex value 'num_proc' or 'slots'
>
> Setting slots would be the way to go.
>
> > to the half of cores is the same thing that to disable the
> hyperthreading.
>
> No.
>
> > If not, what is the difference ?
>
> Limiting the slots will still allow the OS to use the additional threads.
> And it's still up to the OS where to put each thread.
>
> http://gridengine.org/pipermail/users/2016-March/009028.html
>
> Switching it off on a BIOS level will also change the internal operation
> of the pipeline in the CPU as there are no threads to handle any more. IIRC
> there was something about it on the Beowulf list.
>
> -- Reuti
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