[FLASH-USERS] maximum number of cores ever used to run FLASH?

[Richard Bower]

I'm very keen to see this too  (although I've not been running anything big with flash)... could you say something about the memory per core/node? This could be very useful for our next procurement... Richard


On 18 Sep 2014, at 07:46, Stefanie Walch wrote:

> Hi Sean,
> 
> Could you tell me which setup you used for the nice scaling plot you sent around?
> 
> Cheers,
> Stefanie
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> On 17 Sep 2014, at 20:41, Sean Couch <smc at flash.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 
>> For fun, let’s play throwdown.  Can anybody beat 525k cores (2 million threads of execution)?  See attached (1 Mira node = 16 cores).
>> 
>> Sean
>> 
>> <wkScaling.pdf>
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>> Sean M. Couch
>> Flash Center for Computational Science
>> Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
>> The University of Chicago
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>> On Sep 17, 2014, at 1:30 PM, Rodrigo Fernandez <rafernan at berkeley.edu> wrote:
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>>> Dear FLASH Users/Developers,
>>> 
>>> Does anybody know the maximum number of cores that FLASH has ever been run successfully with? Any reference for this? I need the information for a computing proposal.
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> Rodrigo
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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