Large-scale computing backend for Jupyter notebooks - HTCondor batch job submission and monitoring using the Ganga toolkit

Jupyter Notebook is an interactive computing environment that creates notebooks which contains computer code as well as rich text elements like equations, figures, plots, widgets and theory. Ganga is an open source iPython based interface tool to the computing grid which leverage the power of distributed computing grid and provide scientists an interface supported by a powerful backend where they can submit their computation intensive programs to Ganga as a batch job. HTCondor is a workload management system created by University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is based on High-Throughput Computing which effectively utilizes the computing power of idle computers on a network or on a computing grid and offload computing intensive tasks on the idle machines available on a network or computing grid. This project aims to create a plugin for Jupyter Notebook and also integrate it to SWAN Notebook service which is a cloud data analysis service developed and powered by CERN. This plugin will easily submit and monitor batch computation jobs to HTCondor using Ganga toolkit. The plugin will display status of ongoing job in Notebook itself and will also allow termination of ongoing jobs.