[Beowulf] NUMA info request

[Chris Samuel]

----- "Mark Hahn" <hahn at mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> I usually use numactl rather than taskset.

Some of the MPI variants have CPU affinity support (though
that can be a poisoned chalice if you have two MPI jobs
sharing nodes) and there is also the kernels cpuset support
which is now part of the more generic control group system,
see Documentation/cgroups.txt for more info (in the current
kernel).

So, for instance, Torque 2.3.x now supports Linux cpusets
(make sure /dev/cpuset is mounted before starting pbs_mom)
for simple CPU affinity allocations for PBS jobs, but it
does not (yet) tackle the much harder problem of binding
memory nodes to cpusets as well as processor cores, it
just lets them access any memory node (and leaves where
that comes from to the kernel).

cheers,
Chris
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