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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 07:32:59PM +0200, Erich Focht wrote:
> Might also be that the __node_distance matrix which you might use
> by default is not optimal for NUMAQ. It is fine for our remote/local
> latency ratio of 1.6. Yours is maybe an order of magnitude larger?
> Try replacing: 15 -> 50, guess you don't go beyond 4 nodes now...

I'm running with 8 over the weekend, and by and large we go to 16,
though we rarely put all our eggs in one basket.

I'll take it for a spin.


Cheers,
Bill