Webaccess to HPC via Open OnDemand

Erica Bianco
Computational Scientist
HPCNow! – Do IT Now Alliance

Abstract:
Open OnDemand (OOD) is becoming increasingly popular as a user-friendly web interface for accessing High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources and data.

With OOD the end-user can access the login nodes from the webpage, access the file explorer, and spin applications to the compute nodes with a simple click.

In addition to the OOD default features, we developed the possibility of adding different kinds of applications. For example, documentation or dashboards can be embedded directly into the OOD interface, and CLI application jobs can be submitted via webform, retrieving the output in the file explorer. Finally, we are working on spinning GUI applications from the file explorer.

Open OnDemand allows end-users with minimal expertise in scheduling and job submission to load complex applications, move data in and out of the file system, and execute jobs independently even more easily.

More information: https://hpckp.org/