Connect to a coordinator

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

Coordinator URL

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

Authentication

Cluster token

Serve instances: one token for every worker.

Worker key

Shared clusters: a key tied to your account.

Token

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.

Worker name

Shown in the coordinator’s worker list.

Work directory

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

Compute resources advertised

8 CPUs · 16 GB

Detected automatically.

Custom…

Limit what this machine advertises.

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

Coordinator reachablehttp://192.168.1.10:8080 · coordinator 1.1.0-alpha.1

34 ms

Token acceptedauthenticated as cluster worker

51 ms

Python 3.12 found/usr/bin/python3

8 ms

scimesh package missingrun: pip install scimesh — or let the wizard install it

The wizard will save your configuration to ~/.scimesh-worker/config.json and start the worker as a background process.

emil-laptop 8 CPUs · 16 GB 4 workloads