Compute Node, Node

Compute Node, Node

A single server (on-prem) or instance (in the cloud) in an HPC cluster acting as a provider of computing resources for computational jobs to run on. More generally, a “node” is the same, a single server (on-prem) or instance (in the cloud), but could be part of an HPC cluster, a Kubernetes cluster, etc.,—i.e., “node” is not just limited to an HPC cluster like “compute node” typically is.