Archives


- Beowulf
- Beowulf Announce
- Scyld-users
- Beowulf on Debian

[Beowulf] performance tweaks and optimum memory configs for a Nehalem

Many of your questions may have already been answered in earlier discussions or in the FAQ. The search results page will indicate current discussions as well as past list serves, articles, and papers.

Search

Rahul Nabar rpnabar at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 09:29:42 PDT 2009


On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Mark Hahn<hahn at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> in /proc/cpuinfo, I believe it's a simple as siblings > cpu cores.
> that is, I'm guessing one of your nehalem's shows as having 8 siblings
> and 4 cpu cores.

Yes. That works. Also looking at the "physical id" helps.

I was confused by the ht flag. Apparently that is not relevant/. It
only indicates whether the CPU can report hyperthreading or not.

No wonder all my boxes have that "ht" flag.

-- 
Rahul



More information about the Beowulf mailing list