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ARC Explorer v0.1 is a native Apple Silicon macOS workspace for Virginia Tech ARC.
Included
- Connection profiles for TinkerCliffs, Falcon, Owl, and custom SSH hosts.
- Cluster availability, allocation usage, quotas, and remote file browsing/editing.
- Explicit Slurm GPU requests, script saving, job monitoring, logs, and cancellation.
- GitHub/Hugging Face retrieval scripts and module discovery.
- Native login-node terminal, embedded Web/Jupyter views, and SSH tunnels.
- ARC-hosted LLM help, live model discovery, and a command reference.
- Light mode by default, with a dark-mode option.
- Complete source, tests, third-party notices, and a technical paper in PDF, LaTeX, and Markdown with six screenshots covering all five sections.
Requires Apple Silicon and macOS 15 or later. No separate local Python installation or browser is required. Remote Python 3 is required for management operations.
Validation: 28 Python tests and 2 native terminal tests passed. No claim of runtime testing on every supported macOS version or ARC service.
Developer ID signed and Apple notarized. The ticket is stapled and Gatekeeper assessment passed.
Download ARC-Explorer-v0.1-macOS-arm64.zip, unzip, and move ARC-Explorer.app into Applications. The app archive is approximately 1.9 MB.
The source ZIP includes the vendored terminal library. The paper source ZIP includes the LaTeX, bibliography, Markdown, screenshots, and paper generator. SHA256SUMS.txt verifies the attached files.