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CosmoMC Over-utilisation

Posted: December 06 2017
by ruchika kaushik
I have installed CosmoMC successfully in an 8 core Xeon processor
workstation. When I use the command mpirun -np 4 ./cosmomc test.ini , my
8 cores are high with num_thread = 0 & action=0. Could you please tell why
cosmomc is utilizing full cores and not 4 as given in command line. And if I
try to use -n p 8, it throws error, no that much slots are available


How many chains are recommended for good statistics?

Re: CosmoMC Over-utilisation

Posted: December 06 2017
by Antony Lewis
num_thread =0 will automatically set the number of threads, in your case you have two threads per chain to use all the cores. You can set num_threads=1 if you really only want one per chain.

Should be no space in "-n p"?

I usually run four chains till R-1 ~ 0.02 or 0.01 (0.05 is usually fine if you don't want to make 2D plots).

CosmoMC Over-utilisation

Posted: December 07 2017
by ruchika kaushik
Thank you very much for the post. CosomoMC is working fine in this case.

My processor is Intel® Xeon(R) CPU E3-1271 v3 @ 3.60GHz × 8

Now for action = 0,
If I use mpirun -np 4 ./cosmomc test.in with num_threads = 1, it uses exactly four cores. And with num_threads = 2, it uses 8 cores. So its fine here.

But. If I use mpirun -np 8 with num_threads=1, it gives this following error

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------
There are not enough slots available in the system to satisfy the 8 slots
that were requested by the application:
  ./cosmomc

Either request fewer slots for your application, or make more slots available
for use.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Re: CosmoMC Over-utilisation

Posted: December 07 2017
by Antony Lewis
That looks like an mpirun error, nothing to do with Cosmomc. Maybe other programs on your computer are using too much cpu to assing all to cosmomc (or maybe it's seeing the physical cores rather than hyperthreaded).

CosmoMC Over-utilisation

Posted: December 07 2017
by ruchika kaushik
Thank you. It is a hyperthreaded processor.

CosmoMC Over-utilisation

Posted: January 04 2018
by Shouvik Roychoudhury
Keep num_threads=0. It should work.