The MIT SuperCloud Portal Workspace enables the secure exposure of web services running on high performance computing (HPC) systems. The portal allows users to run any web application as an HPC job and access it from their workstation while providing authentication, encryption, and access control at the system level to prevent unintended access. This capability permits users to seamlessly utilize existing and emerging tools that present their user interface as a website on an HPC system creating a portal workspace. Performance measurements indicate that the MIT SuperCloud Portal Workspace incurs marginal overhead when compared to a direct connection of the same service.
@article{arxiv.1707.05900,
title = {MIT SuperCloud Portal Workspace: Enabling HPC Web Application Deployment},
author = {Andrew Prout and William Arcand and David Bestor and Bill Bergeron and Chansup Byun and Vijay Gadepally and Matthew Hubbell and Michael Houle and Michael Jones and Peter Michaleas and Lauren Milechin and Julie Mullen and Antonio Rosa and Siddharth Samsi and Albert Reuther and Jeremy Kepner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.05900},
year = {2018}
}