Desktop App#

Open OnDemand provides a containerized desktop to run on the HPC cluster.

The following tools and programs are accessible on our Desktop App:

  • Slurm (for running Slurm commands via the terminal in the desktop and interacting on compute nodes)

  • Module command (for loading and running HPC-ready modules)

  • File explorer (able to traverse and view files that you have access to on the HPC)

  • Firefox web browser

  • VLC media player

  • LibreOffice suite of applications (word, spreadsheet, and presentation processing)

Note

The desktop application is a Singularity container; a Singularity container cannot run inside the desktop application. It fails if users run a container-based module or program via the desktop application.