Re: NUMA processor numbering

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Thu, 03 Oct 2013, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> Does the above output mean that the cores are numbered right across the two
> physical cpus? Does this mean one has to pin processes to 0,2,4,... to stay in
> "short distance" to node 0 RAM?

...

> If so, it would be a lot better to have them numbered 0-15 and 16-31 for pinning.
> Is there a way to achieve this?

Yes, use hwloc to get the pinning masks for whatever property you want (e.g.
all threads in a given core, all threads in a given node, all threads that
share a given L3 cache...).

http://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/

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