At least here at Harvard Research Computing we run the same
environment/OS on both login and compute. We've found it to be easier
to deal with from a user perspective. That said our login nodes are a
different hardware than our compute, so if people want to build stuff
optimized for specific architectures we tell them to start up an
interactive session on the hardware they want to run on to build.
-Paul Edmon-
On 10/23/18 12:15 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
Hi there,
I realize this may not apply to all cluster setups, but I’m curious what other
sites do with regard to software (specifically distribution packages, not a
shared software tree that might be remote mounted) for their login nodes vs.
their compute nodes. From what I knew/conventional wisdom, sites generally
place pared down node images on compute nodes, only containing the runtime. I’m
curious to see if that’s still true, or if there are people doing something
else entirely, etc.
Thanks.
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