<div dir="ltr">Hello, <div><br></div><div>I am trying to run the static_tov simulation on my university's cluster (<a href="https://docs.crc.nd.edu/new_user/quick_start.html">CRC Notre Dame</a>). However, I got this error when acquiring 48 cores:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="monospace">Error: Too many nodes specified: nodes=2 (maxnodes is 1)</font></span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo;font-size:11px"><br></span></div><div>I am assuming this is due to the <i>#Source tree management</i> module in the Cactus/simfactory/mdb/machines/<host>.ini file. In my case, the automatic *.ini file I got has these configuration:</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">ppn <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">            </span>= 24</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">max-num-threads = 24</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">num-threads <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">    </span>= 12</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">nodes <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">          </span>= 1</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p></div><div>However, the machine I use has 24 cores for each node, and the number of threads for each core is 1. That means if I run the simulation using 48 cores, I need 2 nodes.</div><div><br></div><div>Although I didn't get 2 hosts successfully(I got only 1), I am wondering if I have to edit the <host>.ini file after the command ./simfactory/bin/sim setup-silent by hand, for example: num-threads=1, nodes=2? Or is there any other correct way for getting more than 1 node? </div><div><br></div><div>I would be appreciate it if you could give me some ideas on this problem.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Wei</div><div><br></div></div>