Hello all,
I never used --cores and I don't know the difference with procs.
--cores is a synonym for --procs in simfactory. The hope was to avoid the confusion of "procs" being "Processes" or "Processors". Though it has been pointed out that the best name would actually be "--threads" since that is what simfactory actually starts, which then collides with "--num-threads" (threads per process).
Does Leonardo actually charge you for partial nodes if you do no use a full one? Simfactory is mostly written under the assumption (true at the time) that HPC systems would give you full nodes all the time, so if you use 1 core or 112 cores of a node, the charge would be the same (though shared node systems are becoming more common for HPC now [or again]).
Yours, Roland