TULPAR is a Docker-native platform that manages the OpenHPC component stack — Warewulf, Slurm, LDAP, NTP, DNS — from a single panel. It installs with two commands and is up and running in minutes via a web wizard; one interface instead of SSH and CLI sprawl.
Why TULPAR
HPC Management Now Takes Minutes, Not Weeks
Capabilities
Everything an HPC Cluster Needs
From job scheduling to hardware control, from provisioning to auditing — the cluster's entire lifecycle in a single panel.
How It Works
Four Steps from Install to Production
TULPAR simplifies complex HPC setup: two commands, one web wizard, and your cluster is production-ready. Nodes are discovered automatically and configurations converge on their own.
Install
Two commands and a web wizard — the full stack comes up with your own values in minutes.
Connect
Discover and approve nodes over PXE — Slurm, NTP, LDAP and DNS are provisioned automatically.
Automate
Trigger drain, reboot or notifications on metric thresholds or health events with the rule engine.
Monitor
Keep a finger on the cluster's pulse with the event timeline, alert rules and central log store.
Observability
Data-Driven Cluster Management
Instead of hopping between nodes over SSH, see the real state of your cluster on one screen with Prometheus-based metrics and a unified event stream.
Real-time metrics
CPU, RAM, disk, GPU and InfiniBand metrics are collected automatically from every node; in the job detail view, Slurm accounting data joins Prometheus series.
Alerting and event management
Rule-based alerts arrive via SMTP, webhook or in-panel notifications; silence windows and an ack flow keep alert fatigue away.
For Researchers
Submitting Jobs Has Never Been Easier
Instead of wrestling with sbatch scripts, researchers submit jobs from a web form, watch the queue and track their own resource usage.
Parameterized job templates
Turn frequent jobs into templates and share them with the team — users submit correctly configured jobs in seconds by filling in a few parameters.
Per-user permissions and attribution
Every job is submitted under the signed-in user's identity; fairshare, accounting and RBAC scoping — team leads see only their own team's jobs.
Enterprise Resilience
Runs Smoothly Even Air-Gapped
Offline environment support
Local RPM repositories, GPG-signed offline bundles and in-panel package import — complete installation and updates even on closed networks.
Security and auditability
Every mutation lands in the audit log automatically, with SHA-256 hash-chain tamper detection; nightly backups and config bundle export/import are standard.
Frequently Asked Questions
Got questions? Everything you need to know about installation, licensing and scaling is here.
TULPAR is an enterprise product offered under a commercial license. Licensing is annual, based on your cluster scale and the support coverage you need; every license includes the full feature set — there is no feature gating. Contact us through the contact page for a quote.
An EL9-based head server is enough. tulpar-preflight.sh prepares the prerequisites, install.sh brings up the whole stack; you then enter the admin password, NTP, LDAP and SLURM settings in the web wizard. A typical installation completes in minutes.
TULPAR talks to Slurm over the slurmrestd REST API and falls back to the CLI automatically, providing a stable, version-independent interface. Head Slurm components run natively on the host (dnf/systemd) and share the same repository and version as the compute nodes.
Yes. RPM repositories travel with the product, the Slurm package repository can be imported as a GPG-signed offline bundle, and container images are loaded with docker load. Every component works on a closed network, including node installation, monitoring and central logging.