Comment (by Steven R. Brandt):

“--total-threads” is just a new name for the number of parallel thingies, which aren’t really “cores” and aren’t really “procs.”

As for “--nodes” and “--node-procs” it offers a way to directly specify how you want mpi to do, rather than doing a calucation based on cores/procs/total-threads. I suspect I’m not the only one who would find that more convenient.

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Ticket URL: https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2483/simfactory-job-parameters-are-not