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Contributor's Guide

Reading this page provides background knowledge and will point you in the right direction for getting started on hacking at ChRIS's codebases.

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Backend Architecture​

As a distributed, "hybrid cloud" application, the backend architecture of ChRIS is complex.

Generally, users sit in front of the ChRIS_ui, which makes HTTP requests to the CUBE API. CUBE speaks to one or more pfcon services. A pfcon provides CUBE access to a specific compute resource. pfcon speaks to pman, which is a shim that translates a job request from CUBE to a call to the compute resource cluster.

Architecture Diagram (light theme) Architecture Diagram (dark theme)

Values and Goals​

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