ColdFront is an open source resource allocation system designed to provide a central portal for administration, reporting, and measuring scientific impact of HPC resources. ColdFront was created to help HPC centers manage access to a diverse set of resources across large groups of users and provide a rich set of extensible meta data for comprehensive reporting. ColdFront is written in Python and released under the GPLv3 license.
- Allocation based system for managing access to resources
- Collect Project, Grant, and Publication data from users
- Define custom attributes on resources and allocations
- Email notifications for expiring/renewing access to resources
- Integration with 3rd party systems for automation and access control
- Center director approval system and annual project reviews
- Slurm
- FreeIPA
- LDAP
- Mokey/Hydra OpenID Connect
- iQuota
- Open OnDemand
- Open XDMoD
- System Monitor (example of ways to integrate your own plug-ins)
Animated gifs demonstrating ColdFront features
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ColdFront is released under the GPLv3 license. See the LICENSE file.