Can PETSc detect the number of CPUs on each computer node?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:38 PM, xiaoyin ji <sapphire.jxy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm using PETSc MATMPIAIJ and ksp solver. It seems that PETSc will run
> obviously faster if I set the number of CPUs close to the number of
> computer nodes in the job file. By default MPIAIJ matrix is stored in
> different processors and ksp solver will communicate for each step,
> however since on each node several CPUs share the same memory while
> ksp may still try to communicate through network card, this may mess
> up a bit. Is there any way to detect which CPUs are sharing the same
> memory? Thanks a lot.


The interface for this is mpirun or the job submission mechanism.

   Matt


>
> Best,
> Xiaoyin Ji
>
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