title: Can the load in an SGE node be more than the number of CPUs?
body: <p>I am running a job on a Sun Grid Engine (now known as Oracle Grid Engine) cluster. To see whether my job is slowing down because the node is overloaded, I tried to check the status of the node:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ qstat -l hostname=hnode03 -f
  queuename                      qtype resv/used/tot. load_avg arch          states
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  all.q@hnode03.rnd.mycorp.com BP    0/0/0          103.41   lx24-amd64
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  highmem.q@hnode03.rnd.mycorp BP    0/37/40        103.41   lx24-amd64
   977530 0.76963 runJob1 userme       r     09/13/2013 17:53:26     2
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  threaded.q@hnode03.rnd.mycor BP    0/24/32        103.41   lx24-amd64
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  workflow.q@hnode03.rnd.mycor B     0/0/0          103.41   lx24-amd64
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ qhost -h hnode03
  HOSTNAME                ARCH         NCPU  LOAD  MEMTOT  MEMUSE  SWAPTO  SWAPUS
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  global                  -               -     -       -       -       -       -
  hnode03                 lx24-amd64     64 103.4  504.8G  122.9G   16.0G   58.0M
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now, the <code>load_avg</code> is 103.41, while the <code>NCPU</code> is only 64. Is this ever supposed to happen? Are some jobs using CPU than the slots they are assigned?</p>
  
  <p>Update: In response to queries, the configurations are uploaded to <a href="http://pastebin.com/hLnJBetS" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/hLnJBetS</a>.</p>