Open OnDemand

Introduction

Open OnDemand is a graphical, web-based cluster interface software produced by Ohio Supercomputer Center. The software is installed on the UAB cluster fabric and allows a number of interactions with Cheaha in a consistent and user-friendly environment, all within a web browser. Chrome is preferred, but it appears to work with Firefox as well. Our instance of Open OnDemand is available at https://rc.uab.edu.

Features of Open OnDemand include:

• Filesystem browser
• Text file editor
• Image viewer
• Job composer and saveable templates
• Active job list
• Terminal
• Interactive applications, with in-browser remote desktop experience
• Web server interactive applications
• Per-user application sandbox for deploying custom graphical applications

Interactive applications include:

• Desktop environment
• ANSYS (only available to licensed users)
• IGV
• MATLAB
• SAS

Web server interactive applications include:

• Jupyter
• RStudio

Applications

Interactive

IGV

For more information on IGV please see OOD IGV.

Sandbox

For more information on using the application sandbox please see Open OnDemand Sandbox.