Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sam Skipsey said:
> I just noticed that we're reporting 230 "CPU Tot" now on
> Steve's aggregated
> tests. This appears to be using the value of CE_PHYSCPU, not
> CE_LOGCPU -
> which confuses me, since CE_PHYSCPU is supposed, I thought,
> to reflect the
> number of /nodes/,
Well, it's the number of actual CPU chips, which is usually more than
the number of nodes.
> Am I wrong? Am I missing something? At the moment, it looks a
> little silly,
> because we're advertising many more "free" CPU slots than we
> have "total"
> CPU, according to the test page.
If you can run more than one job per physical CPU, which is often the
case, it seems entirely reasonable. Indeed the surprising thing would be
to have fewer job slots than CPUs!
Stephen
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