10th International Conference "Distributed Computing and Grid Technologies in Science and Education" (GRID'2023)

Development of an interactive access system for the computing resources of the GRID cluster of the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" - IHEP based on WEB technologies

3 Jul 2023, 18:00

15m

MLIT Conference Hall

Distributed Computing Systems Distributed Computing Systems

Speaker

Victoria Ezhova (Institute for High Energy Physics named by A.A. Logunov of National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”)

Description

As a part of organization of a simplified access to the computing resources of the central IHEP cluster based on WEB technologies, was developed a system architecture based on the free software Apache Guacamole. Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway supporting protocols like ssh, vnc and rdp via a web-browser. VNC and RDP support is implemented on the server side using native libraries, and only input and output information is transmitted through the browser, Guacamole provides a good performance, close to standard VNC and RDP clients. This is a good solution, because such a system does not require the installation of plugins and third-party software on the user side, like vnc client and ssh-server for Windows. In our case, this is an additional tool for working with a cluster that does not require any settings on the user side.
This work is about the Guacamole system installation through docker containers, some configuration and user interaction with it as a part of working with the IHEP cluster.

Summary

Guacamole, web, cluster, docker, ssh, vnc, rdp.

Presentation materials

GRID2023_Ежова.pdf