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