About NPACI HotPage

The HotPage, the best known computing portal provides users and developers with a set of simple, modular services and tools that facilitate seamless access to NPACI grid (including high performance computers, high-speed file archival systems, and metacomputing systems such as Globus).

Key features

   1. It is provided by NPACI(the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure at the San Diego Supercomputer Center).

   2. It is is designed to increase the effectiveness of users of NPACI's HPC resources.

   3. The NPACI Scientific Computing department provides the NPACI HotPage which accesses user documentation, news, training, and consulting information, as well as active features such as operational status of compute resources, current MOTDs, and automated batch script generation.

   4. It provides active features such as:

operational status of computational resources
      CPU load/percent usage
      processor node maps
      queue usage summaries
      current queue information for all operational platforms
current MOTDs on all operational platforms
automated batch script generation for all resources

5. Technologies

NQS(Network Queuing System) : (NQS) System for queuing batch jobs on CRAY systems.
Simple Perl/CGI module is used to process HTTP requests and to access resources on the grid.
Using the secure, encrypted login features, users can access their accounts directly.

Comparing with Gateway computing portal

1. The HotPage has well-defined document systems linked into high performance computers and high-speed file archival systems.
2. The HotPage has an important capability for providing job status information to the user.

WWW:

http://hotpage.npaci.edu

This page is created and maintained by Choonhan Youn