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It is only a matter of listing computers and associating them with a name. Lets make an example of defining the following 5 collectives in a hypothetical production facility:

Rackmount-1   —  The 1  →  The servers located in rack number 1.
Rackmount-2   —  The 2  →  The servers located in rack number 2.
Lighter-A  —   A A  →  A group of servers you want to dedicate to lighter A.
Lighter-B  —   A B  →  A group of servers you want to dedicate fo lighter B.
All-servers  — servers  →  All the servers.

Assuming the facility has 10 servers, named server01 to server10, here is how to build the JSON file for the above 5 collectives:

{
"Rackmount-1" : [ "server01", "server02", "server03", "server04", "server05" ],
"Rackmount-2" : [ "server06", "server07", "server08", "server09", "server10" ],
"Lighter-A"   : [ "server01,16", "server02,16", "server03,16" ],
"Lighter-B"   : [ "server04,16", "server05,16", "server06,16" ],
"All-servers" : [ "server01", "server02", "server03", "server04", "server05",
                  "server06", "server07", "server08", "server09", "server10" ]
}

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