The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Authors: Alan Chalker (Ohio Supercomputer Center), David Hudak (Ohio Supercomputer Center), Robert Settlage (Virginia Tech), Robert Deleon (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Abstract: Open OnDemand (OOD) is an NSF-funded open-source HPC platform used at 200+ HPC centers around the world. It is an intuitive, innovative and interactive interface to remote computing resources. OOD helps computational researchers and students efficiently utilize remote computing resources by making them easy to access from any device. It helps computer center staff support a range of clients by simplifying the user interface and experience.
This BoF will be an open discussion to guide the future roadmap for OOD, getting feedback from the community on the prioritization of the various tasks planned for the next few years.
Long Description: The goal of this BoF is to provide a forum for the Open OnDemand (OOD) community to exchange experiences and best practices, as well as to engage with the project development team.
OOD is an NSF-funded open-source HPC portal whose goal is to provide an easy way for system administrators to provide web access to their HPC resources. Its features include: Plugin-free web experience; Easy file management; Command-line shell access; Job management and monitoring; Graphical desktop environments and applications. Altogether, OOD is extremely relevant to ongoing discussions within the HPC community about user interfaces and science gateways.
OOD is currently installed and running at hundreds of academic, governmental, and commercial HPC centers both in the US and internationally, including the University of Utah, Stanford, Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, Tufts University, University at Buffalo, University of Arizona, Texas A&M, and NorTech, and is actively being evaluated by dozens more. Most of these centers send representatives to the SC series of conferences. In addition, general interest in OOD at previous conferences such as SC and PEARC has been demonstrated by the fact there have been several tutorials, papers, and posters that significantly include Open OnDemand in their content, many of which were authored by people that are not part of the core project team.
We have held multiple well-attended webinars and BoFs at conferences regarding Open OnDemand, which further demonstrate the interest to the HPC community. For example, a webinar in April 2019 had 78 people from a variety of institutions across the country. At the SC’19 instance of this BoF in November 2019, there were over 75 attendees. The PEARC'20 conference, held entirely virtual in July 2020, had 82 attendees. The agenda for those BoFs included a brief overview of OOD for anyone not familiar with it, a summary of the general roadmap, as well as a highlight of some items of note from the community. This was followed by 45 minutes of discussion and comments.
As there are many people that attended this BOF at SC’19 (as well as multiple PEARC conferences) and spoke highly of them, the session leaders intend to replicate the same BOF format (with appropriate updates regarding what has been done in the past year and the roadmap for the current NSF award) and anticipate comparable numbers of attendees to the previous BOFs. Key outcomes include a summary of the comments and discussion points, which include reports on installation and utilization issues from locations that currently have it installed, as well as a list of feature requests and development prioritizations. The initial slides presenting an OOD overview, roadmap summary and items of note will also be posted on our website for review by the community.
URL: http://openondemand.org
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