On 08/17/2016 09:32 AM, Nicholas McCollum wrote: > Hello All, > > I've been looking for remote visualization solutions that integrate with > slurm; While I have found several companies that say they could work > with slurm, I have yet to find any that can actually show me a product. > > Essentially I am wanting a solution where a class of 40 students could > log on to our supercomputers, be provided a remote CentOS VM desktop > that is attached to a GPU so that they can either interactively send > jobs to the GPU that they are assigned or run programs like Spartan, > Maestro, Abacus, ANSYS, etc. > > If anyone has a working remote visualization cluster that integrates > well with slurm, I would love to hear from you.
Greetings, We used a product from Nice software (mentioned already) EnginFrame for a while, and in our environment it was quite painful. The support was awesome (seriously, their tech guys were very intelligent and helpful), but making tweaks and changes was a task. Debugging was a nightmare because it uses XML and then merges all of the different variations together with it's master class. Meaning if, you typo or break one thing, all of the errors are for something completely unrelated. We switched to Advanced Clustering Technologies eQUEUE instead. http://www.advancedclustering.com/products/software/equeue/ MUCH simpler to use as they base it off of INI style forms. This means it is so easy my users can create their own interfaces (we are not a big team, so this is yet another bonus). Also, for us, it was a fraction of the cost that we paid Nice Software for EnginFrame. I have also been very pleased with ACT's support. We have submitted numerous feature improvements and have gotten good responses. So either way, the tech support is pretty awesome. :-) Good luck! ~S~
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