Well that's for testing. If it goes in production it will be more than
one node and most of the things that are keeping this back are
operational i.e. how not to waste resources and how to do the accounting
if a job requests a certain number of CPU or the whole node.
cheers
alessandra
On 18/09/2013 18:18, Christopher J. Walker wrote:
> On 18/09/13 17:22, David Colling wrote:
>> Hi Alessandra,
>>
>> Yes they are indeeedee. I only know of bits and pieces in the LHC world
>> but do know, for example, that our T2K colleagues make extensive use of
>> them. The Imperial T2K people code and debug locally and then run on the
>> RAL resources. This is proving so successful that we are considering
>> adding a bigger node - perhaps to the GridPP cloud so that others could
>> use it via OpenStack. These are at the *ideas* stage at the moment, but
>> if we did would there be any takers or would we have just thrown away a
>> chunk of money (or rather given it to T2K as I am sure that they would
>> use them)?
>>
>> I guess that the question is what should GridPP be doing about this? I
>> don't see it as our place to fund development in the individual
>> experiments but should we be acting as a conduit for best practise?
>> Organising Goofit tutorials? Interacting with EGI as Stephen suggests?
>> What else? Is there a focus that we can develop with very little money?
>>
>> I think that these are questions for next Tuesday rather than Friday but
>> I will add a specific discussion to the discussion agenda for this.
> QMUL now has a single node MPI queue - Dan has more details. What more
> does one need?
>
> Chris
>
>> Best,
>> david
>>
>> On 18/09/13 14:41, Alessandra Forti wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> multicore should become a reality at the end of LS1. We should
>>> definitely have it as an activity.
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> alessandra
>>>
>>> On 18/09/2013 14:12, David Colling wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am just drawing up an agenda and is it worth having an item on FTS3
>>>> (from Andrew L.)?
>>>>
>>>> Also the many and multicore activity. Is somebody able to describe
>>>> what has been happening in these two areas? Is this something that we
>>>> want to have as an activity in GridPP5?
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> david
>>>
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