[Swift-user] Specifying coastersPerNode on sites that place jobs by CPU

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Apr 2 23:05:13 CDT 2009


On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 21:01 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> Some sites, like TeraPort, (I think) place independent jobs on all CPUS.
> 
> When using coasters, is it true that the user should not specify 
> coastersPerNode? Or at least not set it to > 1?

Yes. I believe "coastersPerNode" is misleading. It should probably be
"coastersPerWorkerJob", but that may sound cryptic.

> 
>   We should clarify this in the users guide.
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