Conveners
HPC Console - a Lightweight Web-UI for HPC and AI
- Elia Palme (CSCS)
Description
Command-line access to HPC systems is powerful but increasingly a barrier for today's diverse user base. This talk introduces an open-source, web-based HPC Console that offers a unified interface for system monitoring, job submission and management, and data handling across heterogeneous environments.
Built on top of the FirecREST APIs, the Console acts as a secure intermediary between users and HPC resources — providing scheduler-agnostic access to compute, storage, and monitoring services without exposing credentials or requiring direct shell interaction. Its architecture emphasizes server-side rendering, route-centric data orchestration, and strong separation of concerns for consistency, security, and scalability.
We'll walk through key features including cluster health awareness to prevent unsafe job execution, multi-cluster and multi-account support, contextual job monitoring with pluggable observability integrations, and streamlined workflows for moving large datasets.