Rackslab offers open‑source software for managing the full lifecycle of HPC supercomputers, including Slurm‑web for real‑time job and resource visualization, RacksDB for datacenter inventory tracking, and Fatbuildr for automated software and container builds. The tools are freely licensed and can be customized, with commercial support, development, and training services available to help HPC administrators streamline operations and reduce reliance on fragmented proprietary solutions.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Product
Problem
HPC administrators often struggle with fragmented, proprietary tools for cluster monitoring, resource management, data center inventory, and software delivery, leading to high operational overhead and limited automation.
Solution
Rackslab provides a suite of open source software tailored to the full lifecycle of HPC supercomputers. Their offerings include Slurm-web, a web dashboard for real‑time job and resource visualization on Slurm clusters; RacksDB, a lightweight CMDB for modeling and querying datacenter equipment; and Fatbuildr, a continuous delivery platform that builds and publishes software artifacts from definition files. All solutions are released under free licenses, enabling organizations to deploy, customize, and integrate them without vendor lock‑in. Rackslab also offers commercial support, custom development, and training services to ensure reliable operation and rapid adoption of these tools within existing HPC environments.
Target Audience
Primary customers are HPC center operators, system administrators, and research institutions that manage Slurm clusters or large-scale compute infrastructures and require open, extensible tools for monitoring, inventory, and software delivery.
Features
- Slurm-web delivers intuitive visualizations, job tracking, and resource allocation views for Slurm-managed clusters, with support for recent Slurm releases and multiple Linux distributions
- RacksDB provides a simple schema and API to store and query detailed inventory data of datacenter hardware, facilitating asset management and capacity planning
- Fatbuildr automates the build and publication of software packages and container images from declarative definitions, supporting reproducible HPC software stacks
- Open source licensing ensures full access to source code, allowing organizations to modify and extend functionality as needed
- Commercial support contracts cover maintenance, troubleshooting, and updates to keep the software operational on production systems
- Tailored development services enable custom feature implementation and integration with existing HPC workflows
- Training programs accelerate team proficiency with the tools and related HPC technologies such as batch schedulers and containerization