Development of a web interface for submitting jobs to SLURM

Abstract

Protocols such Secure Shell have been commonly used by Linux clusters to allow users sending jobs to SLURM. However, it implies the use of a console emulator to establish the remote communication which, in some cases, is not available. Therefore, this paper presents the development of the Web Submit SLURM API which offers a quick and safe web interface for submitting jobs to SLURM, querying the job queue, and creating and uploading batch files.

Keywords

• SLURM
• Cluster Linux
• CGI
• C