[Beowulf] Grid Engine multi-core thread binding enhancement -pre-alpha release

[Hearns, John]

> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I think a lot of this will apply to non-SGE batch schedulers -- in
> fact Torque will support hwloc in a future release.
> 
That sounds good to me!

(Hint - if anyone from Altair is listening in it would be useful...)


> And all mature batch systems (eg. LSF, SGE, SLURM) have some sort of
> CPU set support for many years, but now this feature is more important
> as the interaction of different hardware layers impacts the
> performance more as more cores are added per socket.
> 
I agree very much with what you say here.
The Gridengine topology-aware scheduling sounds great, and as you say
with multi-core architectures will
be more and more useful.

I'd like to mention cpuset support though - cpusets are of course
vitally useful, however you can have situations
where a topology-aware scheduler would allow you to allocate high core
count jobs on a machine, using cores which
are physically close to each other, yet  also run small core count yet
high memory jobs which access the memory 
of those cores.




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