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eventual GUI? #26

Open HeatherSavoy-USDA opened 2 years ago

HeatherSavoy-USDA commented 2 years ago

Copying recent SCINet newsletter about Open OnDemand:

Open OnDemand for Virtual Desktops and Web Apps on Ceres and Atlas

Open OnDemand is now available. This software provides web-browser access to high-performance computing resources on Ceres and Atlas, including virtual desktop environments and scientific web applications. Available apps include:

Open OnDemand allows user App Development, enabling SCINet users to develop and deploy private custom web apps on Ceres or Atlas from their home directory. Custom Interactive Apps launch apps Slurm jobs on compute nodes, run with the SCINet user’s privileges, and allow access to Ceres/Atlas parallel file systems (see the Open OnDemand Interactive Apps development documentation for more details). Open OnDemand app development is currently opt-in; to enable for your account, please contact the SCINet VRSC (scinet_vrsc@usda.gov), specify the system (Ceres or Atlas), and provide a brief justification.

To get started with Open OnDemand on Atlas, see the Atlas Documentation. Preliminary documentation for accessing the Ceres Open OnDemand is available in the SCINet RStudio Server guide, with additional documentation updates to follow.

stuckyb commented 2 years ago

Possibly? I had imagined that the GeoCDL backend would be running continuously as an HTTP service so that the REST API is always available, but having it spin up on demand would be an alternative.

HeatherSavoy-USDA commented 2 years ago

I was thinking more like we would want to eventually have a custom web app as our web interface that talks to the backend, not change the way the backend runs? But I'm not sure how this would work. I copied this option as a starting point.

stuckyb commented 2 years ago

I was thinking more like we would want to eventually have a custom web app as our web interface that talks to the backend, not change the way the backend runs? Ah, I see what you were thinking - yes, I agree! I wasn't sure what piece(s) of this you had in mind as possibilities for OOD. Definitely worth investigating more.