At Univ. of WA Genome Sciences, we run the same build on both login and compute nodes. The login nodes are obviously not as capable as our compute nodes, but it's easier for us to provision them in the same way.
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 04:15:51PM +0000, 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. > > -- > ____ > || \\UTGERS, > |---------------------------*O*--------------------------- > ||_// the State | Ryan Novosielski - novos...@rutgers.edu > || \\ University | Sr. Technologist - 973/972.0922 (2x0922) ~*~ RBHS Campus > || \\ of NJ | Office of Advanced Research Computing - MSB C630, > Newark > `' > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Skylar _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
