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.