Open OnDemand User Group Meeting
Thursday, June 12, 2025 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM · 1 hr. (Europe/Berlin)
Hall G1 - 2nd floor
Birds of a Feather
HPC in the Cloud and HPC ContainersResource Management and Scheduling
Information
Goal
This BoF will provide a forum for the Open OnDemand (OOD) community to exchange experiences, best practices, and engage with each other.
Topic Overview
Developed by the Ohio Supercomputer Center and funded by the National Science Foundation, Open OnDemand (openondemand.org) is an open-source portal that enables web-based access to HPC services. Clients can manage files and jobs, create and share apps, and run GUI applications.
OOD empowers students, researchers, and industry professionals with remote web access to supercomputers. From a client perspective, key features are that it requires zero installation (since it run entirely in a browser), is easy to use (via a simple interface), and is compatible with any device (even a mobile phone or tablet). From a system administrator perspective, key features are that it provides a low barrier to entry for users of all skill levels, is open source and has a large community behind it, and is configurable and flexible for user’s unique needs.
Relevance to the Expected Audience
OOD is now in use at over 2,000 research computing service providers across the world. These include public and private academic institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and private industries. Notable installations include: (1) Fugaku at Riken in Japan (#6 on the Top500); (2) LUMI at CSC - Finland (#8 on the Top500) ; (3) University of Cambridge; and (4) Do IT Now. All of the major commercial cloud providers (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) have pre-configured OOD instances available in their marketplaces. Most of these organizations send representatives to the ISC conferences.
We have held well-attended user group BoFs in the past, which further demonstrate the interest to the HPC community. Typically, the audience includes existing community members as well as people new to OOD.
A differentiator from previous BoFs is the release in early 2025 of OOD 4.0 that has many additional features that are of interest to the community. Details of these will be included in the presentation.
The session leaders, who are all part of the OOD development team, will jointly develop the content for the presentation in advance to ensure a wide range of viewpoints and topics are presented. We will also consult with our user advisory group in advance for their suggestions.
Expected Outcomes
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 are also always posted on our website for review by the community.
Organizers:
This BoF will provide a forum for the Open OnDemand (OOD) community to exchange experiences, best practices, and engage with each other.
Topic Overview
Developed by the Ohio Supercomputer Center and funded by the National Science Foundation, Open OnDemand (openondemand.org) is an open-source portal that enables web-based access to HPC services. Clients can manage files and jobs, create and share apps, and run GUI applications.
OOD empowers students, researchers, and industry professionals with remote web access to supercomputers. From a client perspective, key features are that it requires zero installation (since it run entirely in a browser), is easy to use (via a simple interface), and is compatible with any device (even a mobile phone or tablet). From a system administrator perspective, key features are that it provides a low barrier to entry for users of all skill levels, is open source and has a large community behind it, and is configurable and flexible for user’s unique needs.
Relevance to the Expected Audience
OOD is now in use at over 2,000 research computing service providers across the world. These include public and private academic institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and private industries. Notable installations include: (1) Fugaku at Riken in Japan (#6 on the Top500); (2) LUMI at CSC - Finland (#8 on the Top500) ; (3) University of Cambridge; and (4) Do IT Now. All of the major commercial cloud providers (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) have pre-configured OOD instances available in their marketplaces. Most of these organizations send representatives to the ISC conferences.
We have held well-attended user group BoFs in the past, which further demonstrate the interest to the HPC community. Typically, the audience includes existing community members as well as people new to OOD.
A differentiator from previous BoFs is the release in early 2025 of OOD 4.0 that has many additional features that are of interest to the community. Details of these will be included in the presentation.
The session leaders, who are all part of the OOD development team, will jointly develop the content for the presentation in advance to ensure a wide range of viewpoints and topics are presented. We will also consult with our user advisory group in advance for their suggestions.
Expected Outcomes
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 are also always posted on our website for review by the community.
Organizers:
Format
On Site
Targeted Audience
OOD is currently deployed at 2,000+ academic, governmental, and commercial HPC centers on every continent except Antarctica, including the CSC - Finland and Riken. Many of these centers send technical and/or administrative representatives to the ISC conferences, all of which will benefit from the BoF.
