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van Waveren, MatthijsSeif, Ahmed
Hassanein, Nasr
Moon, David
O'Byrnes, Niall
Clo, Alain M.
Murugan, Karthikeyan
Arena, Antonio
KAUST Department
IT Research ComputingDate
2016-11Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/623063
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The computing environment at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is growing in size and complexity. KAUST hosts the tenth fastest supercomputer in the world (Shaheen II) and several HPC clusters. Researchers can be inhibited by the complexity, as they need to learn new languages and execute many tasks in order to access the HPC clusters and the supercomputer. In order to simplify the access, we have developed an interface between the applications and the clusters and supercomputer that automates the transfer of input data and job submission and also the retrieval of results to the researcher’s local workstation. The innovation is that the user now submits his jobs from within the application GUI on his workstation, and does not have to directly log into the clusters or supercomputer anymore. This article details the solution and its benefits to the researchers.Citation
Easy Access to HPC Resources through the Application GUI 2016, 3 (3) Supercomputing Frontiers and InnovationsAdditional Links
http://superfri.org/superfri/article/view/104ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.14529/jsfi160302