Self-Service Queue and User Management in Shared Clusters

Under a shared campus cluster model, with many different investing research groups, and annual new cluster acquisitions, constantly adding and removing students and collaborators from resources owned by partner faculty, campus IT staff set out to design a cluster management solution to empower faculty to manage access to their purchased resources. This system needed to also allow IT staff to quickly provision resources, provide accurate accounting and tracking of faculty purchases over time, and provide one location for data about the cluster program. This paper describes the applications developed to empower faculty to directly grant and remove access to their resources and improve the ability of IT staff to provision, track, and manage these resources.