= MCF Compute Manager =

Our computational infrastructure is organised as a ”cloud” and implemented using the [http://www.gridgainsystems.com/ GridGain 2.1.1] cloud development platform. The package can be re-used as a stand-alone application or in a combination with the data management. The whole computational logic is
located at one ”cloud” node. We call it the Compute Manager node. The rest of the computational ”cloud” is a standard [http://www.gridgainsystems.com/ GridGain] software deployed in a local network, cluster or server. The topology of our "cloud" is shown in the Figure below.

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MCF Compute Manager consists of two modules:
* Job Manager, which distributes jobs across cloud Worker nodes and monitors their executions, and
* Resource Manager, which starts and stops Worker nodes on the cluster.