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Ganana HPC App Portal makes it easier for users to run HPC applications without programming and for administrators to better manage their clusters. The web-based Portal is available as a flexible, application-centric platform for users and administrators to interact with their HPC clusters or grid in a natural and powerful way. By standardizing access & use of the HPC applications, Ganana Portal makes it easier for HPC administrators to enforce site policies and minimize user support costs.
Enabling High Performance Computing Administrators also benefit from an intuitive, self-scripting capability that helps simplify the creation of job submission templates, resulting in reduced setup time while minimizing user errors during job submissions. Ganana HPC App Portal also provides both users and administrators with remote job monitoring, easy access to job related data and the capability to manage jobs, such as stopping, suspending, resubmitting jobs, etc. For customers desiring to integrate their home grown applications directly with their HPC cluster, Ganana HPC Portal extends the capabilities by providing an extensive web services API for custom application integrations, extended visualization support, reporting and usage analytics. It also includes additional pre-built application templates for many popular HPC applications in various industry verticals. 3
Portal Features GUI (WEB) BASED JOB SUBMISSION Submit Jobs from any location using web Browser. NODE FEATURE/ CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATION End users can only apply the jobs to nodes that have the required characteristics, therefore matching the best job to the best resource to get maximum performance. PERSONALIZED JOB LISTS AND JOB STATUS INFORMATION End users quickly learn to manage and track their jobs, reducing administrative support burden. CREDENTIAL-SPECIFIC ACCESS AND SUBMISSION Software intelligently applies rules based on the user, group, quality of service, etc. of submitter. (Role Based Access). E-MAIL NOTIFICATIONS End users can receive notification when jobs begin, finish or fail, allowing them to track their jobs without login into Web portal. SAVE ALL SCRIPTS SUBMITTED BY A USER Allow future modification and/or resubmission of Jobs. SEPARATE PORTAL AND CLUSTER Submit jobs without downloading or configuring software for the clients, minimizing impact on network and cluster infrastructure. FILL THE FORM TO SUBMIT THE JOB No need to worry about writing complicated scripts 4
FLEXIBLE AUTHENTICATION REPORTING Portal Integration with existing LDAP or NIS Auth system of organization or Cluster. Generate reports on Cluster usage, node usage, job, individual user, Department, etc. for specified period. FEATURE SCALABILITY CHECKPOINT Portal is based on Industry standard Web 2.0 framework. So more features & applications can be added as modules. Application level Checkpoint Support LICENSE SERVER INTEGRATION & ANALYTICS Support for License Server Integration with Scheduler. Shows the real time Free/ Busy License token of Applications. ALTAIR HYPERSTUDY DESKTOP CLIENT COMPATIBLE User can fire job from the Altair Hyperstudy Client and monitor / manage the same from Portal window. MONITORING Real time Resource monitoring of cluster as well as individual GUI Job monitoring by users. View historical data of cluster resource usage. WINDOWS PRE / POST PROCESS CLIENT SUPPORT Windows systems can access (Input / Output files )directly from user s home directory in Linux Cluster and do Pre / Post process activity. 5
User Benefits The graphical interface simplifies user access to the cluster and minimizes the time taken to submit the jobs in the cluster. The interface also helps the users by making the cluster accessible with minimal knowledge of Linux commands. Web based job Submission, Monitoring & Reporting Portal support for most popular commercial & Open Source Schedulers. Provide customized job submission method, input file uploading, view and download output files, monitoring status of submitted jobs, job history, with support of Scheduler administration. Ganana Portal manages the submission of jobs from start to finish. The process begins with the upload of input file, and ends with viewing/obtaining the output of run. At each step of the process, the user is presented with options that are easy & self-intuitive, with no need to consult a technical manual or take external admin help. SECURITY SERVER PLATFORM SUPPORT OS: Linux & Windows 2008 / 2012 Scheduler: Tested with Open Grid Engine (Linux), UNIVA (Supports Linux & Windows) & Oracle Grid Engine (Linux) Password Protection Data Protection Fault Protection ACCESSIBILITY CLIENT PLATFORM COMPATIBILITY OS: Windows XP, 7, 8, 2003, 2008 All Linux OS variants Users Tied to a Cluster Cross Browser / Platform Compatibility Intuitive Design Browsers: IE 7 or above, Mozilla 2.0 or above Web browsers must support cookies and Java Script 1.2 or higher 6
INTEGRATION TO SCHEDULER (GRID ENGINE) Master Scheduler Node failover (HA) Portable Hardware Locality Library CUDA GPU support with load sensor Heterogeneous OS Support (Windows, Linux & Unix) Heterogeneous Processor Support (x64, x86 & RISC) Application level checkpointing support FlexLM License integration thru Grid Engine complex configuration Reservation of nodes with back filling capability & Advance Reservation Configurable node allocation policies with preemption and fair share Application support for post and pre processing Capability to set limits on the total CPU hours by a user Priority queuing facility Support history of jobs, user specific CPU utilization& Accounting Resource Quota (RQS) Configuration Support for Array Job Interactive Job Batch Job Parallel Job READY TO USE APPLICATION TEMPLATES Radioss Gaussian-Linda MatLab Ansys CFX Gromacs Mathematica Fluent Blast Paras MSC NASTRAN Clustalw Star-ccm+ LSDYNA Fasta Scilab Abacus Amber R (Stat Analysis) Femfat Hmmer NAMD Optistruc OpenFoam AMBER 7
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