How many simultaneous jobs can I run on the linux servers?
First, some background information. A machine with one processor can run one job flat out. It can run two jobs by switching back and forth between the jobs, etc. This is a gross simplification, but it will do. Another gross simplification is that if you have n processors, it can run n jobs flat out, 2n jobs by switching back and forth between the jobs, etc. But the switch isn’t free; it costs time and resources to save one job and load the other one and then to save the other one and load the first one. This is especially true for memory-intensive programs. Also note that the machines are shared resources.
