Ian Stokes-Rees <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> Why would I, as the cluster user (or grid user) care that two processors
> "happen" to be in the same 1U box with the same power supply, motherboard,
> and local harddrive(s). I suppose I can answer that myself: in the case
> of gang scheduling and truly parallel jobs which use multiple processors.
Two words: Memory bandwidth!
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Leif Nixon Systems expert
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