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Commit 3766b05e authored by Morris Jette's avatar Morris Jette
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Clarify KNL heterogeneous NUMA issues

The problem only exists on a subset of KNL models, those with 68 cores.
bug 2941
parent 2060a5e7
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......@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ Examples below demonstrate use of HBM.</p>
<p><a name="note"><b>NOTE</b></a>: Slurm version 16.05 and earlier can only
support homogeneous nodes (e.g. the same number of cores per NUMA node).
KNL scn4 and quad modes are not homogeneous, but each each NUMA mode will have
KNL processors with <u>68 cores</u> (a subset of KNL models) will not have
homogeneous NUMA nodes in scn4 and quad modes, but each each NUMA node will have
either 16 or 18 cores. This will result in Slurm using the lower core count,
finding a total of 256 threads rather than 272 threads and setting the node
to a DOWN state.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 6 May 2016</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 26 July 2016</p>
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