wiki:Public/User_Guide/SDV_KNLs

Version 3 (modified by Anke Kreuzer, 8 years ago) (diff)

General information

We have 8 KNLs in the SDV right now.
knl01-knl06 with EXTOLL
knl07+knl08 with NVMe

Node allocation

Nodes can be allocated through the PBS based batch system that is also used for the DEEP Cluster and Booster.You can start an interactive session on our KNLs like this:

qsub -l nodes=2:ppn=256:knl,walltime=00:10:00 -I   (this will randomly choose 2 of our 8 KNLs)
qsub -l nodes=2:ppn=256:knl:extoll,walltime=00:10:00 -I   (this will choose 2 of our 6 KNLs nodes with EXTOLL)
qsub -l nodes=2:ppn=256:knl:nvme,walltime=00:10:00 -I   (this will choose the 2 KNLs with NVMe)

When using a batch script, you have to adapt the -l option within your script.

Compiling

Use the -xMIC-AVX512 flag instead of -mmic.

Using MPI over EXTOLL

set PSP_RENDEZVOUS_VELO = <max. message size>