[gmx-developers] thread cannibalism

[Sander Pronk]

You can set the number of threads with -nt <number>; the default is 0, which means as many threads as there are cores/hardware threads.

On Jul 7, 2010, at 12:18 , David van der Spoel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm now enjoying the automatic thread parallellization which works wonders on my Mac Pro with eight cores, and I assume on other multi-core boxes too.
> 
> Is there an option to limit the number of threads per node for mdrun?
> 
> I'm asking because we are using a queue system where we allow multiple independent (single core) jobs per node. If each of these were to start 4 or 8 cores the overall efficiency would be lower, but if the other jobs are not mdrun it might mean that these get pushed away.
> 
> Note that the same could happen with other programs, e.g. Gaussian uses shared memory as well.
> 
> Is there any solution other than disallowing multiple jobs per node?
> 
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