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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" ]} |
This file can be named and saved wherever you choose among your installation. Assuming you saved the file in "~/users/me/MyCollective.json", you just add the following line in the 3delight.config configuration file so that 3Delight knows about it:
collective ~/users/me/MyCollective.json
With this information, the 3Delight Collective option will be available among the Processing Options and accompanied with a menu to select which collective to use (if there are more than one):
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