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Handling oom/malloc Failures

Because we run individual nodes without swap space, memory demands must be met locally. To do this set the Linux tuning parameters, overcommit_memory and overcommit_ratio, as follows.

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Marginal MGTnet links can cause boot failure

Typically, SiCortex systems are configured with one (SC648) or four (SC5832) gigabyte Ethernet ports that connect the SSP to management nodes in the system (m[0,2,4,6]n6 on the SC5832, and m0n6 on the SC648).

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Last Updated: 06/11/2008

SLURM compute partitions should contain nodes exclusively used for computations

The System ships with several sample partitions that are intended as examples only. The supplied partitions may not match your site’s I/O configuration and system administrative needs.