On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:10:45AM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 05:48:00PM +0000, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > > > We’re getting some complaints that there’s not enough stuff in the > > compute node images, and that we should just boot compute nodes to > > the login node image > > It's probably worth your while sitting down with your users and > learning how they want to use the tool, instead of telling them. > From a small lab size setup I am managing with warewulf diskless, the compute nodes have a minimal set of rpm installed, but if the users want to have the "same" environment as the login node, he can just singularity shell into it. That works for me too when I need to build on the faster compute nodes than on the login node and that gives me a takeaway build container wherever I need it.
just my 2 cents Tru -- Dr Tru Huynh | mailto:t...@pasteur.fr | tel +33 1 45 68 87 37 https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/structural-bioinformatics/ Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris CEDEX 15 France _______________________________________________ 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
