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Compute nodes
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.. toctree::
  :maxdepth: 3

  design-compute/design-compute-concepts
  design-compute/design-compute-cpu
  design-compute/design-compute-hypervisor
  design-compute/design-compute-hardware
  design-compute/design-compute-overcommit
  design-compute/design-compute-storage
  design-compute/design-compute-networking

This section describes some of the choices you need to consider
when designing and building your compute nodes. Compute nodes form the
resource core of the OpenStack Compute cloud, providing the processing, memory,
network and storage resources to run instances.