Zinnia – Cluster Operations Dashboard

A real-time HPC cluster simulator with live monitoring, job scheduling, and operational analytics powered by ASP.NET Core and SignalR.

Zinnia is a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster operations dashboard built to simulate cluster workloads and visualize system health in real time. [solo project] Key capabilities: - ASP.NET Core Web API simulating HPC cluster nodes, queued workloads, running jobs, failures, and utilization metrics - Live operational dashboard powered by SignalR, streaming cluster health, queue length, active jobs, and node status updates - Job scheduling workflow modeled with Entity Framework Core and SQL Server, supporting pending, running, completed, and failed state transitions - Dockerized backend and React frontend for one-command local deployment of the complete cluster operations simulator Built with: C#, ASP.NET Core Web API, Entity Framework Core, SQL Server, SignalR, React, Docker