Interactive computing with NeSI OnDemand¶
Overview¶
OnDemand empowers students, researchers, and industry professionals with remote and interactive web access to the HPC platforms.
Connecting to OnDemand¶
Prerequisite
Requires an account.
Connect to OnDemand: https://ondemand.nesi.org.nz.
For more information see the How-to guide.
Interactive applications¶
A number of interactive applications can be accessed through OnDemand, including:
- JupyterLab
- RStudio
- VS Code
- Virtual desktop
- MATLAB - currently under development, let us know if this is of interest
Changes from Jupyter on NeSI¶
- JupyterLab is no longer the main user interface but is just another application to be launched via the OnDemand interface
- RStudio, MATLAB and Virtual Desktop applications are accessed directly from OnDemand instead of via JupyterLab
Known Issues¶
A list of known issues and limitations with OnDemand, can be found on this page
Release notes¶
Release notes can be found here.
Acknowledgements¶
We acknowledge the work of the Open OnDemand team in providing the underlying platform used for this service, as described in the following paper: