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'''A note on terminology:''' In | '''A note on terminology:''' In most Compute Canada documentation the term 'node' refers | ||
to an individual machine, also called a 'host', and a collection of such nodes makes up a 'cluster'. | to an individual machine, also called a 'host', and a collection of such nodes makes up a 'cluster'. | ||
In | In a lot of R documentation however, the term 'node' refers to a worker process and a 'cluster' is a | ||
collection of such processes. | collection of such processes. As an example, consider the following quote, "Following '''snow''', a pool | ||
of worker processes listening ''via'' sockets for commands from the master is called a 'cluster' of | |||
nodes."<ref>Core package "parallel" vignette, https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/parallel/doc/parallel.pdf</ref>. | |||
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