Sections
This Web site is organized into five major sections for all users:
- General Information: Information about the composition and management
of the EGSC HPCC and about computational clusters, Beowulfs, and
parallel computation.
- Benchmarks and Statistics: Measures and indicators of the potential
throughput of the EGSC HPCC and of actual usage and availability.
- Applications: Access to configure, start, stop, modify, manage, and monitor
computational jobs on the EGSC HPCC. Applications are only available to
authorized users and can only be accessed by logging in with pre-assigned
credentials.
- Contacts: Forms for user requests, problem reports, concerns, and
contributions along with information about how to contact HPCC management
in the event of urgent need.
- Help: A collection of pages providing general help for users of the
EGSC HPCC. (This Help Section does not include help for specific applications
since each application provides its own help pages.)
There is a sixth section of Developers' Information of interest to persons
developing applications for deployment on the EGSC HPCC but not to all users. This developers'
section is only visible to credentialed users upon login to the Applications Section.
Page headers indicate the Section to which each page belongs by showing the Section name
against a color band with a color unique to the Section:
| General Information |
Benchmarks and Statistics |
Applications |
Contacts |
Help |
Developers' Information |
Page Levels
Within each section, pages are typically divided into two levels:
- A main page with a menu linking to each of the Section's sub-sections or topics; and
- Content pages (or, in the case of applications, operational pages).
When a topic within a section is itself divided into sub-sections, the sub-section main page will
be formatted very much like the Section main page, with a menu of sub-sections included.
Conceptually a sub-section main page is to be regarded as an extension of the Section main page rather
than as a content page.
The significance of the two-level structure is that almost every content page within a section
is linked back directly to the Section's main page. This should give users a sense of where they are
within the site. On this Web site, general information leads to more specific information in a hierarchical structure,
so navigation tends to be from general main and topic pages down to detail pages.
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