odd number of nodes

Soumya Pradhan · Post by **Soumya Pradhan** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:56 pm

Can it be possible to run the jobs with odd number of nodes? If not why?

kcbland · Post by **kcbland** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:00 pm

It's possible - a one node configuration file demonstrates this. Why would you not want an odd number - probably because even numbers are more pleasing? You'll configure different files according to processing needs.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:01 pm

There's no rule that says you have to have a even number of nodes. 1 is an odd number, after all. And the loneliest number, of course.

Post by **daignault** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:27 pm

The number of nodes should actually be 2 or more when configuring your APT file. When you configure a job during development/testing with a single node, there is no parallel testing done.

This can cause some issues when deploying from a 1 node system to a multi-node system.

Regards

Ray Daignault