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 (Isilon)
- XDMoD
- System Monitor (example of ways to integrate your own plug-ins)
If you would like a live demo followed by QA, please contact us at [email protected]. You can also contact us for general inquiries and installation troubleshooting.
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- ColdFront requires Python 3.6, memcached, and redis.
Install EPEL then install required packages:
sudo yum install epel-release
sudo yum install python36 python36-devel memcached redis
# Install SQLite >= 3.8.3 from source since it is absent from the CentOS software repositories
wget https://sqlite.org/2020/sqlite-autoconf-XXXXXXX.tar.gz
tar -xzf sqlite-autoconf-XXXXXXX
cd sqlite-autoconf-XXXXXXX
./configure
make
make install
#Check version
sqlite3 --version
Install EPEL then install required packages:
sudo yum install epel-release
sudo yum install python36 python36-devel memcached redis
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.6 python3.6-venv memcached redis-server
- Clone ColdFront in a new directory and create a Python virtual environment for ColdFront
mkdir coldfront_app
cd coldfront_app
git clone https://github.com/ubccr/coldfront.git
python3.6 -mvenv venv
- Activate the virtual environment and install the required Python packages
source venv/bin/activate
cd coldfront
pip install wheel
pip install -r requirements.txt
- Copy coldfront/config/local_settings.py.sample to coldfront/config/local_settings.py.
cp coldfront/config/local_settings.py.sample coldfront/config/local_settings.py
- Copy config/local_strings.py.sample to config/local_strings.py and update if desired.
cp coldfront/config/local_strings.py.sample coldfront/config/local_strings.py
- Run initial setup
python manage.py initial_setup
- OPTIONAL: Add some test data
python manage.py load_test_data
- Start development server
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
- Point your browser to http://localhost:8000
You can log in as admin with password test1234.
You can log in as a PI using username cgray with password test1234.
You can log in as another PI using username sfoster with password test1234.
Password for all users is also test1234.
- coldfront
- core - The core ColdFront application
- field_of_science
- grant
- portal
- project
- publication
- resource
- allocation
- user
- utils
- libs - Helper libraries
- plugins - Plugins that can be configured in ColdFront
- freeipa
- iquota
- ldap_user_search
- mokey_oidc
- slurm
- system_monitor
- core - The core ColdFront application
ColdFront is released under the GPLv3 license. See the LICENSE file.