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Explicitly disable hyper-threading on Hera, Hercules, and Orion #2863

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DavidHuber-NOAA opened this issue Aug 27, 2024 · 2 comments · Fixed by #2965
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Explicitly disable hyper-threading on Hera, Hercules, and Orion #2863

DavidHuber-NOAA opened this issue Aug 27, 2024 · 2 comments · Fixed by #2965
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What new functionality do you need?

Hera, Hercules, and Orion (and possibly Jet) enable hyper-threading by default. This should be disabled explicitly by adding the sbatch/srun flag --hint=nomultithread.

What are the requirements for the new functionality?

All jobs should run threaded tasks across cores, not within a single core's threads.

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Identical results without significant differences in run times.

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Add --hint=nomultithread to each .env file.

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Just curious, Will we run into any problems if we don't disable hyper-threading?

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@guoqing-noaa Probably not. There is only one case that I have been made aware of, but it does not affect the global application. Regional apps (RRFS/HAFS) that read/write netCDF files in parallel within the GSI often experience errors while attempting to read and write from the same file when hyperthreading is enabled. More details are available in NOAA-EMC/GSI#694.

WalterKolczynski-NOAA pushed a commit that referenced this issue Oct 30, 2024
Hera, Hercules, and Orion (and possibly Jet) enable hyper-threading by
default. This should be disabled explicitly by adding the `sbatch/srun`
flag `--hint=nomultithread`.

Resolves #2863
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