Dear Kris,

Have you upgraded to ADF2004.01?

We were under the impression that we solved the 2 GB file limit problem
in this most recent version,
so you should even be able to run the job - or any job - on just 1 CPU,
if you have enough free disk space.

If our assumption is not correct, please send your output file as an
attachment to support_at_scm.com
which a description of your OS and hardware details.

An alternative, but not desirable, solution would indeed be to increase
the number of processes,
without increasing the number of CPU's. In principle, you could run an
artificial 32-process parallel
ADF job on 1 CPU. However, the license file limits the maximum number
of processes to the
maximum number of CPU's in your license.

So, please let us know (support_at_scm.com) if upgrading to ADF2004.01
indeed solves this problem.
Thank you.

Best regards,
Stan van Gisbergen

On Aug 26, 2004, at 9:56 PM, Kris Harris wrote:

> Hello, I would like to run a job that produces very large tape files,
> usually I just increase the number of processes so the data is spread
> among more tape files (not necessarily processors, just processes).
> Unfortunately, as we have a license for 8 processors, I can not run a
> job broken into more than 8 processes.
>
> Does anyone know a way I could, say, run a calculations as 10
> processes on 5 cpus?
> (I can run 8 processes on 4 cpus but If I try 10 on 5 cpus, I get a
> license invalid error)
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
>
> Kris
> University of Alberta
> Wasylishen Group
>
>
>
> kjharris_at_sdf.lonestar.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
>
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Received on 2004-08-27 08:43:21