Controlling # Processors Used by MathKernel?
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- Subject: [mg125000] Controlling # Processors Used by MathKernel?
- From: Mark Suhovecky <suhovecky at nd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:24:15 -0500 (EST)
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We're running Mathematica 8.0.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7. This is an HPC cluster environment, so most folks run Mathematica scripts in batch using the format math -script example.m My usersr are not doing explicit Parallel programming yet, but I've noticed that some mathematica scripts, when run, take up all all of the cores available on a machine, i.e. - a top command will show MathKernal using 800% on an 8 core machine. Is it possible to tell Mathematica how many cores it's restricted to on a machine, rather than having it grab them all? I've tried adding Unprotect[$ProcessorCount];ProcessorCount=2; to my initfile- no difference. I've also tried adding that to the start of the script, to no effect. If anyone's been able to do this, I'd appreciate knowing how. Thanks, Mark