https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Moderncode-for-Parallel/Trace-Collector-Licensing/m-p/963907#M5378 <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <P>John -</P> <P>Yours is an intriguing question, not only for Intel Trace Collector, but for all software that counts processors as a licensing restriction. Since HT doesn't give a 100% performance boost, should it be counted as a whole processor, should it be counted as a partial processor (and what fraction), or should it only be counted as a single processor?</P> <P>To answer your specific question, Intel Trace Collector counts <STRONG>MPI processes </STRONG>against it's license not processors in the cluster. Thus, Hyper-Threading hasno bearing on the license.If your license was restricted to 8 processes,only runs with up to 8 processes would be able to be run with the Intel Trace Collector library and viewed with the Intel Trace Analyzer, but could be run on 8 processors of a 1024 node cluster.</P> <P>-- clay</P> <DIV></DIV> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:47:29 GMT ClayB 2004-04-12T21:47:29Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Moderncode-for-Parallel/Trace-Collector-Licensing/m-p/963906#M5377 Can anyone tell me whether a Hyper-Threading CPU counts as 1 or 2 processors for the purposes of licensing the Intel Trace Collector? Wed, 07 Apr 2004 17:48:42 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Moderncode-for-Parallel/Trace-Collector-Licensing/m-p/963906#M5377 johnappleyard377 2004-04-07T17:48:42Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Moderncode-for-Parallel/Trace-Collector-Licensing/m-p/963907#M5378 <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <P>John -</P> <P>Yours is an intriguing question, not only for Intel Trace Collector, but for all software that counts processors as a licensing restriction. Since HT doesn't give a 100% performance boost, should it be counted as a whole processor, should it be counted as a partial processor (and what fraction), or should it only be counted as a single processor?</P> <P>To answer your specific question, Intel Trace Collector counts <STRONG>MPI processes </STRONG>against it's license not processors in the cluster. Thus, Hyper-Threading hasno bearing on the license.If your license was restricted to 8 processes,only runs with up to 8 processes would be able to be run with the Intel Trace Collector library and viewed with the Intel Trace Analyzer, but could be run on 8 processors of a 1024 node cluster.</P> <P>-- clay</P> <DIV></DIV> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:47:29 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Moderncode-for-Parallel/Trace-Collector-Licensing/m-p/963907#M5378 ClayB 2004-04-12T21:47:29Z