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Pasquale Morvillo
pasquale.morvillo@portici.enea.it

>I'd suggest to try to run Firefly with more than 256 cores in xdlb mode,
>while placing only e.g., 8 processes per each system and check whether
>this helps or not. If it does, this would mean you was hitting some
>system-wide limits.

It is almost impossible for me to try this.
We have 42 nodes with 16 cpus. Considering that some of these are dedicated to tests (i.e. they are not available for normal run) and some nodes are always in maitenance, there are less than 32 nodes (256/8) available (if nobody is using our system!).

regards