openPC : a toolkit for public cluster with full ownership

TL;DR

openPC is an open-source toolkit that creates a flexible, secure, and fully accessible public computing cluster with independent blocks, supporting diverse middleware and user-friendly interfaces.

Contribution

It introduces a novel toolkit for public clusters that ensures full ownership, security, and compatibility with heterogeneous systems, demonstrated through deployment and performance analysis.

Findings

Successfully deployed on LIPI Public Cluster

Supports full ownership and security policies

Compatible with heterogeneous middleware environments

Abstract

The openPC is a set of open source tools that realizes a parallel machine and distributed computing environment divisible into several independent blocks of nodes, and each of them is remotely but fully in any means accessible for users with a full ownership policy. The openPC components address fundamental issues relating to security, resource access, resource allocation, compatibilities with heterogeneous middlewares, user-friendly and integrated web-based interfaces, hardware control and monitoring systems. These components have been deployed successfully to the LIPI Public Cluster which is open for public use. In this paper, the unique characteristics of openPC due to its rare requirements are introduced, its components and a brief performance analysis are discussed.