#1150: Simfactory: it doesn't honor --procs when running testsuites -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Reporter: bmundim | Owner: eschnett Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: SimFactory | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: -------------------------+--------------------------------------------------
Comment (by hinder):
--procs is ambiguous, so we should deprecate it. It really means "total number of threads which will be launched", but from the user's point of view, it also usually corresponds to "cores". I would like to be able to specify "--cores" (i.e. the amount of hardware I want to use), on the understanding that I will get that many cores, and that there will be one thread per core (the sensible choice). We should keep --procs for compatibility to mean exactly what it means now. We can introduce "-- processes" which will determine the number of MPI processes; this is probably only ever used when testing, and when running test suites.