<p dir="ltr">Those xeon have hyper threading technology. They sell then as double the real core they have.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 4, 2014 10:53 AM, "Reuti" <<a href="mailto:reuti@staff.uni-marburg.de">reuti@staff.uni-marburg.de</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
<br>
Am 04.02.2014 um 17:45 schrieb Andreas Gross:<br>
<br>
> I am looking for help with MPICH2.<br>
><br>
> I installed mpich-3.0.4 on a Centos 6.5 PC with 24 cores.<br>
> When I launch with mpiexec on 17 procs all procs are running 100%.<br>
> When I launch on more than 17 procs the job gets slower and most processors run on less than 100%.<br>
><br>
> I spent a lot of time google'ing this problem but did not find any answers.<br>
> Somebody said it may be a memory problem but the computer has 32GB RAM and the same problem occurred when running a very small problem.<br>
> On bigger computers I have run the same code on 2,048 processors with no problem at all.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> "lscpu" gives the following response:<br>
><br>
> Architecture: x86_64<br>
> CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit<br>
> Byte Order: Little Endian<br>
> CPU(s): 24<br>
> On-line CPU(s) list: 0-23<br>
> Thread(s) per core: 2<br>
<br>
There are only 12 real core. Depending on the application it might degrade when the threads are used. For our applications I found it might be around factor 1.5 which can be used - this matches your detected limit of 17.<br>
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-- Reuti<br>
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<br>
> Core(s) per socket: 6<br>
> Socket(s): 2<br>
> NUMA node(s): 2<br>
> Vendor ID: GenuineIntel<br>
> CPU family: 6<br>
> Model: 45<br>
> Stepping: 7<br>
> CPU MHz: 1200.000<br>
> BogoMIPS: 4590.92<br>
> Virtualization: VT-x<br>
> L1d cache: 32K<br>
> L1i cache: 32K<br>
> L2 cache: 256K<br>
> L3 cache: 15360K<br>
> NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-5,12-17<br>
> NUMA node1 CPU(s): 6-11,18-23<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> "less /proc/cpuinfo" shows:<br>
><br>
> processor : 0<br>
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel<br>
> cpu family : 6<br>
> model : 45<br>
> model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 0 @ 2.30GHz<br>
> stepping : 7<br>
> cpu MHz : 1200.000<br>
> cache size : 15360 KB<br>
> physical id : 0<br>
> siblings : 12<br>
> core id : 0<br>
> cpu cores : 6<br>
> apicid : 0<br>
> initial apicid : 0<br>
> fpu : yes<br>
> fpu_exception : yes<br>
> cpuid level : 13<br>
> wp : yes<br>
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