Open OnDemand tips and tricks calls

Here are recordings from the last 2 months:

March - March 6 2025 - Google Drive
April - April 3 2025 - Google Drive

For the next 2 months, we don’t have a topic yet for May. I am thinking covering various generative AI/LLM interfaces, to follow up on the April topic. In particular, UIs that work with OnDemand. We have had hard time finding ones that work but did find one eventually, called GPT4All. It would be good if a few more sites could volunteer with their solution.

For June, we have lined up BYU HPC presenting their Windows Open OnDemand app.

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This Thursday, May 1st, we are planning a community showcase of generative AI/LLM interfaces, and, the OOD interfaces in general, that various sites have. I will kickstart the discussion by showing the current state at Utah, and hope that some call attendees will volunteer to show their OOD interfaces after that. If you’d like to pre-volunteer, please, PM me and I’ll make you a co-host right away at the start of the call.

Hi Martin,

We have a couple of AI/LLM apps that we are happy to show tomorrow. I’ll send you a PM with our emails so you can add us.

Thanks,
Sean

Thanks for your demo yesterday. It is possible to share the source code for the Gradio Chatbot and the OOD app?

Thank you!

If one is available, we’d be interested in a recording of demos yesterday.

@dtenenba @jrlagrone I’ll put something together on Github and will share the link here soon.

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Sorry for the long delay! Here is the repo with both of the AI apps that we presented during the last Tips-and-Tricks call:

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Next Thursday is the first one in June, so time for another Tips and Tricks call, at 10am PT / 11am MT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET. Dean Anderson and Ryan Cox from Brigham Young University will present

7lbd (“Seven Layer Bean Dip”), which allows users to launch and access a Microsoft Windows desktop via Open OnDemand without requiring any additional Windows infrastructure. It treats Microsoft Windows as “just another Open OnDemand application”—similar to JupyterLab, MATLAB, or VSCode—and provides users with access to their files in a secure, isolated environment.

Today’s call recording is at June 5 2025 - Google Drive. Thanks again to Dean and Ryan for a great talk.

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Since many will likely be out of the office on Thursday 7/3, we will take a break with the calls and reconvene in August.

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