Thank you Mark,
So then does changing the CPU count to >1 in the POSSUM GUI not do anything at all unless you are running SGE (Sun Grid Engine)?
We do not have SGE installed.
- Ilia
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:34:59 +0100, Mark Jenkinson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Just to add to this - unless you are running SGE (Sun Grid Engine)
>then you will not get parallel processes running. FSL is currently
>not multi-threaded and requires SGE to distribute processes over
>multiple cores/CPUs.
>
>All the best,
> Mark
>
>
>On 27 Apr 2012, at 18:04, Ivana Drobnjak wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> If the 7 files were possum.o1223.1, possum.o1223.2, possum.o1223.3 ... possum.o1223.7 , see inside them and if they all say that the process is finished then it is all fine and your job ran on 7 processors.
>>
>> there should be only .sh.o file
>>
>>
>> Ivana
>>
>>
>> On 27 Apr 2012, at 17:55, Ilia M wrote:
>>
>>> There are 7 .o files and 1 .sh.o file.
>>>
>>> Does this mean that 7 processor cores were used?
>>>
>>> Or 7 threads?
>>>
>>> (By the way, your reply took 3 minutes! Impressive)
>>>
>>> Your reply took 3 minutes, amazing.
>>> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:47:29 +0100, Ivana Drobnjak <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> the way to check this is to go to the logs directory and check how many .o files you have. there should be one per processor
>>>>
>>>> Ivana
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 27 Apr 2012, at 17:44, Ilia M wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>> After setting the "CPU" setting to multiples of one (4,6,8, etc), possum still shows up as only 1 process when running "top" from linux.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this correct?
>>>>>
>>>>> The "%CPU" field never goes above 100 either (usually stays in the nineties).
>>>>>
>>>>> It doesn't look like POSSUM is using more than one CPU.
>>>>>
>>>>> Installed CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5680 @ 3.33GHz (6 core w/ hyper-threading)
>>>>>
>>>
>>
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