Access the Web Portal Open OnDemand (OOD) is an open-source web-based platform designed to provide easy and efficient access to high-performance computing (HPC) resources. Developed initially by the Ohio Supercomputer Center, it allows users to interact with HPC clusters through a user-friendly web interface rather than requiring command-line expertise. ...

What is HPC? High Performance Computing (HPC) generally refers to the practice of aggregating computing power in a way that delivers much higher performance than what a typical desktop computer or workstation can offer. This enhanced capability is used to solve large problems in science, engineering, or business. ...

When working with data, graphical interfaces can be useful for exploration and program execution. We offer Discovery Cluster Desktop through our Open OnDemand Portal. For more information on accessing the Web Portal, please refer to the Getting Started Open OnDemand. Once logged in, you can launch various interactive applications, including Discovery Desktop connections. The Discovery Desktop app simplifies the configuration of a VNC desktop session on a compute node. ...

DartFS is a network-based storage service for documents and files. Each member of Dartmouth’s research community can request a 50GB DartFS private home directory space (named as your Dartmouth NetID). ...

To create jobs through Open OnDemand, navigate to Jobs > Jobs Composer from the dashboard. You will see the below output opened in a new tab. The list of options available to create new jobs are point_right From Default Template, From Template, From Specified Path, and From Selected Job. ...

Using SSH For logging into and executing commands on a remote machine, we use the SSH client ssh. ...

Jupyter Notebook and JupyterLab are available through Dartmouth’s Open OnDemand. To access the web portal, please refer to our Getting Started with Open OnDemand documentation page. Once logged into the portal, there are a range of interactive apps, including Jupyter, which can be launched directly from the portal for hands-on data analysis and visualization. ...

The bash shell A shell is a user interface for accessing system resources and executing commands. One of the most commonly used shells is the Bourne Again SHell, or bash. By default, when you log into the Research Computing systems you are operating in a bash shell. ...

The bash shell In order to provide multiple versions of software compiled with different and varying libraries, we use modules. Modules allow us to add and remove software from our $PATH using a simple module command. ...