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Resource Broker

Resource Broker is an application tool for submitting/monitoring jobs on remote clusters.

Source: CSE-Online

Features

There are two similar tools in the CSE-Online envoriment to do job submission: Resource Broker and GSub. From the user's point of view, they both have the similar functionalities, as they both can

1. User authentication.
2. Job submission.
3. Job status query.
4. Job output retrieval.

However, the GSub is aimed at supporting job submission for Grid, i.e., Teragrid and Pragma Grid. It uses the Globul toolkit as its underline technology; on the other hand, Resource Broker has more flexibilities than GSub by allowing job to run on any servers which support SSH protocol and user's desktop/laptop. For user who have access to Grid resources, GSub provides a nice interface for job managing. For user who prefer to execute his/her job on other clusters, Resource Broker is the tool to use. They both provide similar communication interface to the rest of CSE-Online applications.

Requirements

User needs to have access to the remote cluster through SSH. Currently the Resource Broker supports "Password", "Keyboard Interactive", "SSH Public Key" as its authentication methods.

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