On 17/1/19 1:24 pm, rapier wrote:
Or is there some known and understood way to do something like this that might be documented somewhere?
What you're describing sounds a lot like Slurm's cloudbursting facility where nodes can be defined with a name that Slurm knows but when they boot they inform slurmctld of their hostname and IP address.
https://slurm.schedmd.com/elastic_computing.html Best of luck! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Berkeley, CA, USA