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libEnsemble has been tested on systems of highly varying scales, from laptops to
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thousands of compute nodes. On multi-node systems, there are a few alternative
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ways of configuring libEnsemble to run and launch tasks (i.e., user applications) on
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the available nodes.
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ways of configuring libEnsemble to run and launch tasks (i.e., user applications)
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on the available nodes.
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The :doc:`Forces tutorial <../../tutorials/executor_forces_tutorial>` gives an
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example with a simple MPI application.
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Note that while the diagrams below show one application being run per node,
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configurations with **multiple nodes per worker** or **multiple workers per node**
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are both common use cases.
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The default communications scheme places the manager and workers on the first node.
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The :doc:`MPI Executor<../executor/mpi_executor>` can then be invoked by each
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simulation worker, and libEnsemble will distribute user applications across the
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node allocation. This is the most common approach where each simulation
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node allocation. This is the **most common approach** where each simulation
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runs an MPI application.
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The generator will run on one worker by default, but if running a single generator,
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The generator will run on a worker by default, but if running a single generator,
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the :ref:`libE_specs<datastruct-libe-specs>` option **gen_on_manager** is recommended,
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which runs the generator on the manager (using a thread) as below.
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