SciMesh · Worker setup

Local wizard served by worker-agent setup · 127.0.0.1

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Connect
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Machine
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Check
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Run

Connect to a coordinator

The coordinator hands out work and collects results. Ask your cluster admin for its address.

For a served instance this is the address printed by coordinator serve.

Cluster token

Serve instances: one token for every worker.

Worker key

Shared clusters: a key tied to your account.

The admin can copy it from coordinator token on the server.

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This machine

Where tasks run and how the machine appears in the cluster.

Shown in the coordinator’s worker list.

Datasets and shard results live here. ~1 GB free space recommended.

Auto

Detect the machine’s CPU count.

Custom…

Limit what this machine advertises.

Process this many shards in parallel on this machine. Each loop runs its own task runner subprocess.

Preflight check

Making sure this machine can reach the coordinator and run SciMesh workloads.

Ready to join the cluster

Configuration will be saved and the worker started as a background process.