e-Biochem: A Web Based Bioinformatics Life Science Job Management System for a HPC Cluster

摘要

Research Labs & Organizations engaging in a setup of complex HPC cluster needs to track the usage of HPC by end users. The complexities & difficulties involved in this setup for scientists & students are to know the commands associated to the application as well as HPC environment. This increases the reluctance of using the grid environment and user prefers to use standalone applications thus making the HPC investment highly costly. This paper provides the feature of e-Biochem, a based Bioinformatics & Life Science job management portal integrated with PBS Professional. Users use the portal to submit their job by selecting applications, cpus, O/S & priority with pre-defined rules thereby making the HPC setup more user friendly and cost benefit. It also provides a platform for universities and labs to provide a BioFarmsAsCloud(BFAC) environment for other organizations/labs to use the setup continuously and optimally.