SCAS dashboard: A tool to intuitively and interactively analyze Slurm cluster usage
Thomas Walzthoeni, Bom Bahadur Singiali, Nigel William Rayner, Francesco Paolo Casale, Christoph Feest, Carsten Marr, Alf Wachsmann · The Journal of Open Source Software · 2024
Many organizations offer High Performance Computing (HPC) environments as a service, hosted on-premises or in the cloud.Compute jobs are commonly managed via Slurm (Yoo et al., 2003), but an intuitive, easy-to-use and interactive visualization has been lacking.To fill this gap, we developed a Slurm Cluster Admin Statistics (SCAS) dashboard.SCAS provides a means to analyze and visualize data of compute jobs and includes a feature to generate presentations for cluster users.It thus allows HPC stakeholders to easily analyze and identify bottlenecks of Slurm-based compute clusters in a timely fashion and provides decision-making support for managing cluster resources.