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The Forge

The Forge is Kothar’s integrated environment for scientific computing, tying together dedicated editors, tailored programming languages like Aleph, high-performance libraries, and the services researchers rely on to get from idea to insight. It gives physicists, chemists, and engineers a single place to prototype models, run large simulations, and publish results without juggling fragmented tooling.

The Workshop web application anchors the experience with editors and visualization surfaces tuned for scientific work. When you launch a computation, the Forge routes it to managed agents that sit close to your heterogeneous hardware—CPUs, GPUs, and soon QPUs—so workloads land where they run best. REST endpoints exist for automation and ecosystem integration, but the default path for most teams is to pair the Workshop with agents that provide low-latency access to compute.

This guide walks through each component, starting with the Workshop’s authoring tools, then covering how agents execute and monitor jobs, and finally showing when to extend the Forge with APIs and external services.

Across these surfaces you will encounter a few shared concepts:

  • Workspaces keep your research bounded to a single unit that links source code, visualizations, datasets, and execution history so users and teams can reason within a canonical space.
  • Executions are short-lived runs, ideal for validating hypotheses or checking work-in-progress without polluting the long-term record.
  • Jobs capture the persistent, production-grade runs that publish results, data, and records.
  • Files keep authored materials and generated datasets together—Aleph scripts, notebooks, presentation assets, HDF5 outputs, and more—so every workspace maintains a single, versioned source of truth.

Getting Started​

  • Ensure you can access the Workshop—sign up at https://kotharcomputing.com/ and wait for an invitation.
  • Confirm you have compute resources ready for agents; a personal laptop is sufficient for initial experiments.
  • Workshop — author, iterate, and visualize directly in the browser environment designed for Aleph and scientific workflows.
  • Agents — manage execution nodes that sit near your compute resources, schedule runs, and surface telemetry.
  • API — integrate the Forge into automation scripts or external systems using the same capabilities exposed in the UI.