Open OnDemand tips and tricks calls

The next Tips and Tricks call is in on Thursday, Jan 4th, at 1pm ET. Simon Westersund from the Finnish CSC will go over their deployment of Open OnDemand on LUMI.

CSC is hosting Europe’s largest supercomputer LUMI, and last November LUMI’s web interface was opened, based on Open OnDemand. This presentation shows how CSC develops and deploys OOD on three discrete supercomputers, using Podman as the underlying technology, to be able to align the setup between the clusters as much as possible. The presentation will discuss the pros and cons, as well as a few gotchas with deploying OOD inside containers.

Two teams collaborate on the OOD development. The Computing Environments team improves the experience of using OOD at CSC, while collaborating with the Computing Platforms team, who operate the clusters, and manage the deployment. Tight cooperation is required to be able to integrate with other CSC systems, and enable a user-friendly interface to the supercomputers. The presentation will demonstrate how CSC’s setup ensures that productive development is enabled, while maintaining stability in production.

New attendees need to register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqfuqqrToqGtMMel3jTB6OGpi1hUWtFdmJ.

Also, the December call recording is at December 7 2023 - Google Drive.

Happy New Year.

When will the recording for the January call be available?

Thanks!

Yes, it’s at January 4 2024 - Google Drive. The parent directory should be also viewable, OnDemandTipsTricks - Google Drive, from which you can access all the available documents/videos.

This Thursday 2/1, is the first of the month of February, which means the next Tips and Tricks call, at 1pm ET, 12pm CT, 11am MT, 10am PT.

Title: Open OnDemand with Globus

Speaker: Lee Liming, Globus

Abstract: If you offer Open OnDemand and Globus on your cluster, Open OnDemand’s Files app now has a configurable Globus button to simplify Globus transfers. Lee Liming (Globus) will demonstrate the feature and how to configure it on your Open OnDemand system.

Those who haven’t registered yet to the call and want to attend use Meeting Registration - Zoom to obtain the Zoom call link.

This Thursday, 3/7, will be another Tips and Tricks call, at 1pm ET, 12pm CT, 11am MT, 10am PT.

First the Open OnDemand team will give a quick overview of the release 3.1 features, followed by:

Title: UGent HPC site customisations for module selection in Ondemand

Speaker: Stijn de Weirdt, University of Ghent

Abstract: Walk through UGent HPC site customisation and backend code for
additional features implemented in the ondemand portal. In particular,
dynamic module selection for multiple clusters is detailed.

Thank you to Stijn for quickly agreeing to present this as a follow up of the recent discussion about this on Discourse.

Tips and Tricks call is this week, on May 2nd at 1pm ET, 12pm CT, 11am MT, 10am PT.

Open OnDemand collaboration with the Ecosystem for Research Networking (ERN) CryoEM Federated Remote Instrument Access Project

Abstract: Morgan Ludwig (MGHPCC/Techsquare) and Maureen Dougherty (ERN) will present a demonstration of Open OnDemand running in a container to manage authentication, authorization and handling of scientific instrument access and control via Open OnDemand’s reverse proxy system to connect via noVNC.

Also last month’s recording is at April 4 2024 - Google Drive.

Thanks again to Maureen and Morgan for a great presentation. The video and slides are at May 2 2024 - Google Drive.

In June we’ll plan the ISC recap, then we’ll skip July and then have a PEARC recap in August.

If someone is interested in presenting their new cool Open OnDemand feature, please, let us know.

The next Tips and Tricks call is this week, 6/6 at 1pm ET / 12pm CT / 11am MT / 10am PT.

The OOD team will recap the ISC and preview the PEARC24 conferences.

Will there be a call tomorrow, July 4th (US Holiday)?

Thanks for checking in. As we announced last month, we will not have a call tomorrow due to the US July 4th holiday! Hope to see you in August!

Best regards,

Julie Ma

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The next Tips and Tricks call is this Thursday, August 1st at 1pm ET, 12pm CT, 11am MT, 10am PT.

Brandon Biggs from Idaho National Lab present “AI Chat Integrated into Open OnDemand
Description”. He will demo frontend only, OpenAI API streaming/RAG compatible, chat interface for Open OnDemand. (MC note) INL HPC group is using this chat app as a chatbot access to their documentation.

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Will the recording of the last (August 1st) Tips&Tricks be made available? I was very interested in the topic, but was unable to attend.

Thanks!

The August call recording is at August 1 2024 - Google Drive.

Next week Thursday is another call, we’re still determining the topic.

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The Tips and Tricks call is this Thursday, 9/3 at 1pm ET, 12pm CT, 11am MT, 10am PT. We will have an “open mic” session. Particularly interesting would be if participants would be willing to showcase their OnDemand installations. I will start with a tour of our recently re-worked Protected Environment frontend. Those willing to contribute please reply to this thread so we can make you co-hosts for screen sharing.

We’re only a few months in on our installation process, but I’d be happy to share what little I have during tomorrow’s call. Thanks.

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This Thursday, 10/3 will be another Tips and Tricks call, 1pm ET, 12pm CT, 11am MT, 10am PT.

Bill Horka from Harvard University will talk about "A Pathway to Single Sign-On (SSO) for Open OnDemand with User-selected Authentication Choice”.

I am sure SSO is on many people’s minds so please join us and share your questions and experiences. There should be plenty of time for a discussion.

Last month’s open discussion recording is at September 5 2024 - Google Drive

When will the recording be posted?

Recording of the October call is at October 3 - Google Drive

Happy November, the next Tips and Tricks call is this Thursday 11/7 at 1pm ET, 12pm CT, 11am MT, 10am PT.

Jonathan Lee from Arizona State University will show their new HPC Dashboard app, which includes reworked Node Status app we heard about a year ago along with detailed node and SLURM job information.

For those who haven’t registered for these call series yet, here’s the link

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