Overview

Open OnDemand is an NSF-funded open-source HPC portal based on OSC’s original OnDemand portal. The goal of Open OnDemand is to provide an easy way for system administrators to provide web access to their HPC resources, including, but not limited to:

• Plugin-free web experience
• Easy file management
• Command-line shell access
• Job management and monitoring across different batch servers and resource managers
• Graphical desktop environments and desktop applications

See the documentation for installation directions, app development tutorials, and an overview of the components and applications that make up OnDemand. We also have a walkthrough video showing the various components of an Open OnDemand instance available.

Organizations using or exploring OnDemand

Below is a list of organizations that have deployed or are looking at deploying Open OnDemand. Please contact us via the news list if your organization is not on this list and should be included!

We also have a page with testimonial comments from many of these organizations

Run your own live demo

There are 2 ways you can have a demo Open OnDemand instance running in minutes:

1. Using Vagrant. Just follow the steps listed in the ood-images-full README.
2. Using the Science Gateways hosting service. Instructions are listed in the sgci-ood-image README.

Project and Feature Roadmap

Upcoming Releases

Click here for a list of upcoming planned releases

Open OnDemand 2.0 Project

Click here for details on the Open OnDemand 2.0 project

Tell us what features you want to be added to OnDemand!

• Add new feature requests or bug reports on the project issues page (requires free GitHub account)
• Post a suggestion or review existing suggestions on our Discourse instance
• Send an email to us on the news list

See a list and comment on community requested features we are already planning on working. Note - you must be logged in to GitHub to see this list.

Collaborating with Open OnDemand

The Open OnDemand team welcomes and encourages opportunities to collaborate on proposals with members of our community in response a variety of solicitations. Examples of potential collaboration roles our team can have include developing and delivering related client education and training programs, and providing extended support services for software deployment and custom workflow development. Please contact us via the news list if you would like to discuss a potential collaboration.

Please consider contributing to the code repository on Github. Since January 2016 there have been over 8,000 commits to the code base, but we can always use additional development help!

Project Cybersecurity

Trusted CI , the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence conducted an in-depth vulnerability assessment of Open OnDemand, completing it in December 2018. This assessment included a careful review of the code, increasing our confidence in its security. The Ohio Supercomputing Center addressed the implementation issues (bugs) that were found during this review, producing a more robust revision of Open OnDemand.

If you have security concerns or think you have found a vulnerability in Open OnDemand, please contact us directly via email on the news list linked above.

Where to Learn More!

Webinars

Conferences / Publications

Branding

Open OnDemand branding assets are available in the GitHub repository. Organizations are encouraged to utilize them in their own presentations and installations.

Software Licensing

Open OnDemand code is released under the MIT License. Documentation and most publications are released under the CC BY 4.0 License

Maintained by OSC

This project is maintained by the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), a member of the Ohio Technology Consortium, the technology and information division of the Ohio Department of Higher Education.