Coldfront is an open source resource allocation system designed to provide a central portal for administration, reporting, and measuring scientific impact of HPC resources. Coldfront was created to help HPC centers manage access to a diverse set of resources across large groups of users and provide a rich set of extensible meta data for comprehensive reporting. Coldfront is written in Python and released under the GPLv3 license.
- Allocation/Subscription based system for managing access to resources
- Collect Project, Grant, and Publication data from users
- Define custom attributes on resources and subscriptions
- Email notifications for expiring/renewing access to resources
- Integration with 3rd party systems for automation and access control
- Center director approval system and annual project reviews
- Coldfront requires Python 3.6, memcached, and redis.
Install EPEL then install required packages:
sudo yum install epel-release
sudo yum install python36 python36-devel memcached redis
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.6 python3.6-venv memcached redis-server
- Clone Coldfront in a new directory and create a Python virtual environment for Coldfront
mkdir coldfront_app
cd coldfront_app
git clone https://github.com/ubccr/coldfront.git
python3.6 -mvenv venv
- Activate the virtual environment and install the required Python packages
source venv/bin/activate
cd coldfront
pip install wheel
pip install -r requirements.txt
- Copy config/local_settings.py.sample to config/local_settings.py.
cp config/local_settings.py.sample config/local_settings.py
Open config/local_settings.py and update the following:
- Update
SECRET_KEY. Consider making the length at least 50 characters long. - Update
TIME_ZONEif necessary
- Copy config/local_strings.py.sample to config/local_strings.py and update if desired.
cp config/local_strings.py.sample config/local_strings.py
- Run initial setup
python manage.py initial_setup
- Setup an admin user
python manage.py createsuperuser
- Optional: Add some test data
python manage.py load_test_data
- Start development server
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
- Point your browser to http://localhost:8000
You can log in as admin with password test1234.
You can log in as a PI using username ccollins with password test1234.
You can log in as center director using username michardson with password test1234.
Password for all users is also teset1234.
- core - The core Coldfront application
- common - Common code shared between applications
- extra - Extra applications that can be configured in Coldfront
Coldfront is released under the GPLv3 license. See the LICENSE file.