Binder for HPC Clusters
An experiment in deploying Binder on HPC systems where Docker isn't allowed.
The images directory contains instructions and files for building Docker images that
represent the basic services and computing platforms that constitute a base
HPC cluster:
- a head node, into which users can SSH,
- a PBS server, from which PBS jobs can be launched on the compute nodes,
- PBS MOM servers, which form the compute nodes in the Docker cluster,
- a JupyterHub server, on which users can launch single-user Jupyter Lab instances on the JupyterHub server itself (i.e., local), on the head node (i.e., via SSH), or on the PBS compute nodes (i.e., via a PBS job), and
- a BinderHub server, from which authenticated users can launch Binderized notebooks on the HPC cluster.
The examples directory contains different Docker Compose examples of different
HPC cluster deployments. Running these Docker Compose examples requires that the
Docker images defined in the images directory have been built. To build the images,
run make in the images directory.