From fe2697f3848e4200486ac1f1b3fd948d3b365a80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Danny Auble <da@schedmd.com> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 09:55:44 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] BLUEGENE - More updates to docs --- doc/html/bluegene.shtml | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/html/bluegene.shtml b/doc/html/bluegene.shtml index b4c24174005..fd20d64dcab 100644 --- a/doc/html/bluegene.shtml +++ b/doc/html/bluegene.shtml @@ -28,12 +28,16 @@ for every <i>midplane</i> on the system. </p> <p>Internally SLURM treats each <i>midplane</i> as one node with a processor count equal to the number of cores on the midplane, which -keeps the number of entities being managed by SLURM more reasonable. -Since the current BlueGene software can sub-allocate a <i>midplane</i> -into smaller blocks, more than one user job can execute on each <i>midplane</i>. -In the case of BlueGene/Q systems, more than one user job can also +keeps the number of entities being managed by SLURM more +reasonable.</p> + +<p>All BlueGene systems can sub-allocate a <i>midplane</i> +into smaller blocks, this allows more than one user job to execute on +each <i>midplane</i>.</p> +<p>In the case of BlueGene/Q systems, more than one user job can also execute in each block (see AllowSubBlockAllocation option in 'man -bluegene.conf'). +bluegene.conf').</p> + To effectively utilize this environment, SLURM tools present the user with the view that each <i>c-node</i> is a separate node, so allocation requests and status information use <i>c-node</i> counts. -- GitLab