You can configure a node with specific attributes, similar to passing arguments to a JVM. The Apache Ignite clustering API provides a method to find cluster groups where a specific user-defined attribute is set. Now, launch a node with an attribute, 'FOO', and value, 'BAR', and set it in IgniteConfiguration:

public class NodeAttributeFoo {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
         IgniteConfiguration cfg = new IgniteConfiguration();
         cfg.setPeerClassLoadingEnabled(true);
         HashMap<String, Object> userAttrb = new HashMap<>();
         userAttrb.put("FOO", "BAR");
         cfg.setUserAttributes(userAttrb);
         try (Ignite ignite = Ignition.start(cfg)) {
             while(true) {
                 Thread.sleep(1000);
             }
         }
     }
}

Create a program to send compute to the nodes where the attribute 'FOO' and its value 'BAR' is set:

public class AttributeGrouping {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 IgniteConfiguration cfg = new IgniteConfiguration();
 cfg.setPeerClassLoadingEnabled(true);
 try (Ignite ignite = Ignition.start(cfg)) {
 IgniteCluster cluster = ignite.cluster();

The cluster.forAttribute takes the attribute name and its value to find all of the nodes in the cluster where the key-value pair matches:

    ClusterGroup fooBarGroup = cluster.forAttribute("FOO", "BAR");
    IgniteCompute fooBarGroupCompute = ignite.compute(fooBarGroup);

    // broadcast the computation to fooBar nodes
    fooBarGroupCompute.broadcast(() -> {
     System.out.println("********
FOO BAR group
***********");
    });
   }
  }
 }

Run the program; it will only send the computation to the NodeAttributeFoo node: