From 0099af473fbcbe42e436c69187ca4a271e9a4e78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Teuben Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 09:18:28 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] add mkrunfile.py reference --- man/man8/tricks.8 | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/man8/tricks.8 b/man/man8/tricks.8 index 165bb61c7..4c518f6d0 100644 --- a/man/man8/tricks.8 +++ b/man/man8/tricks.8 @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ The (bash) array ${PIPESTATUS[@]} contains the status ($?) for each program in a unix pipe. In this example it should return "0 0 0". .SH "PARALLEL and OpenMP" -Most programs in NEMO are still single-core, but many current machines have a number of cores. If a program only +Most programs in NEMO are still single-core, but many current machines have multiple cores. If a program only uses a fraction of the memory on the machine, the GNU \fIparallel(1)\fP program can be used to spread the load, e.g. .nf @@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ created here, a well crafted Runfile can be created, and with make -f Runfile -j 2 .fi should achieve the same result. +.PP +The \fBmkrunfile.py\fP script can help making such runfiles by looping over a set of parameters. .PP Although NEMO can be configured using \fB--with-openmp\fP to take advantage of multi-cores OpenMP @@ -129,7 +131,8 @@ should be aware of the user interface implications of controlling how many cores .SH "SLURM" slurm is a popular package you will find on large computer clusters. See also -\fIsbatch_nemo.sh(8NEMO)\fP for a helper script in NEMO to use slurm. +\fIsbatch_nemo.sh(8NEMO)\fP for a helper script in NEMO to use slurm. It will likely +have to be tailored for your specific situation. .SH "TABLES"