Hey SarcasticSquirrel56 ,
are agents needed on the server installation?No, you can have it running on the same machine (there is no limitation about it), but you can run the clearml-agent in every machine and the clearml-server doesn’t need those.
how many agents are recommended?It depends on your needs. Each agent can run a single task each time, so if you have 2 agents running, you can have 2 tasks training in the same time, and N agents will give you N running tasks.
what best practices should I adopt when managing server side agents?The server doesn’t need gpu, so I think only one agent running services-mode should be it.
should I ask the data scientist to install agents on their laptops?If your data scientist wants to run a task on the personal machine OR wants others to run tasks on the machine, yes, otherwise I dont think so
any other information you might want to give is appreciated
This is pretty cool - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quSGXvuK1IM
How to start - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9vqxF2UfFU
https://clear.ml/docs/latest/docs/clearml_agent#allocating-resources
you can specify GPUs to use for each running agent
Hi Alon, thanks, I actually watched those videos. But they don't help with settings things up 🙂
From your explanation, I understand that Agents are indeed needed for ClearML to work.
but I don't understand the comment on GPUs as the documentation makes a lot of references on GPU configurations for agents