Tools and Services for High Performance Computing

The accounting platform is a web-service based system for collection and analysis of accounting data from different infrastructure resources like High Performance Computing (HPC), Cloud and storage systems. The platform has two major components - backend API services along with different data publishers and a client web UI module for visualization and operations. The backend API is designed to gather information from different job management systems, cloud vendors, and storage providers and use micro-service architecture. The web UI module is written in Python, JavaScript and has integrated SAML login module for user authentication and authorization. It is capable of visualizing the gathered data in dynamic OLAP style and supports standard export formats like CSV and Excel. Through the accounting platform, it is possible to obtain a full view of the usage patterns of an integrated electronic infrastructure and to see from one point all information about the different resources comprising the hybrid computing and data infrastructure.