Inspiration
When we thought of High Performance Compute (HPC), the first thing that comes to mind is power. Logic then followed, we would theme our project after the most powerful creature of all, penguins. Because when it comes to HPC, it's fight or flight, and penguins? They don't flight.
What it does
We built a comprehensive frontend to connect users with HPC solutions. Just upload data. No need for technical expertise. Everything that would have previously required a seasoned computer engineer can now be done with the click of a button, no need for ssh, fancy scripts, or anything in the way between the customers and their solutions.
How we built it
We used a suit of tools to implement our frontend. We first built a skeleton with Codex and began with CSS design on Figma. After 24 long caffeine filled hours and a couple of treks through the freezing weather we got a clean aesthetic integrated with our backend and mock hpc.
Challenges we ran into
We found that automatically detecting and filtering what kind of analysis to run on the users uploaded data was quite difficult. Initially we tried having gemini develop the scripts to send to the hpc, but we decided against that due to api rate limits and possible script errors when running the generated code.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
It's so accessible even when we called in some of our non technical friends they were able to navigate the site and get results.
What we learned
We learned that more people need High-Performance Computing than you would think. Everybody has some form of data that needs analysis.
What's next for Penguin Power
Some of our next steps for Penguin Power are implementing it with more HPCs and expanding the use cases and analyses.
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