What is Flight Solo?
Flight Solo is the software environment designed to help researchers and scientists run their own high-performance compute research environment quickly and easily. The basic structure provided for users is as follows:
- One gateway node, plus a configurable number of compute nodes
- An Enterprise Linux operating system
- A shared filesystem, mounted across all nodes
- A batch job scheduler
- Access to various libraries of software applications
What is Flight User Suite?
The Flight User Suite is a collection of environment tools that provide users with easy and intuitive ways to manage the software and desktop sessions in a research envrionment. The purpose of these tools is to get researchers started with HPC as quickly as possible without needing to worry about their environment, leaving them to do what they do best - research!
Web applications
This environment provides access to the following web tools:
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Flight Console
Access interactive console sessions
The Flight Console service allows you to access an interactive terminal console session running on your cluster.
Flight Desktop
Access interactive GUI desktop sessions
The Flight Desktop service allows you to access interactive GUI (graphical user interface) desktop sessions running on your cluster.
Flight File Manager
Access files on your cluster
The Flight File Manager service provides access to your files held on your cluster via an in-browser interface.
Flight Job Manager
Create and manage your jobs
The Flight Job Manager service allows you to create and manage customised job scripts from predefined templates, launch jobs and monitor their activity.