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OOD Service Deprecation

The OOD environment is being replaced by ARE (Australian Research Environment). Please migrate your workload to ARE. For more information, see the ARE User Guide.

What is Open OnDemand (OOD)?

Open OnDemand (OOD) is an online portal giving you access to compute resources at NCI such as VDI, Gadi, or Jupyter Lab.  It provides an app based infrastructure that can be accessed via a web browser.

Note: At the moment we are in the pre-production phase. We are still testing and making progressive system improvements before we classify the OOD platform as "production".  However, OOD is ready for use now.

If you have any issues, please mail us at help@nci.org.au.

Connecting

  1. Open: https://ood.nci.org.au/
  2. Type your NCI Username/Password

Required ports

If your location has an outbound firewall, to use this service you will need to be able to connect to ood.nci.org.au on TCP ports 443 and 8443, and ood-vnc.nci.org.au on TCP port 22.


Your first time using OOD

If you have an NCI account, but have never used OOD at NCI (nor its VDI predecessor), you will be required to complete the new user setup.

  1. The following login window will appear:

  2. Click the Create home directory link


     
  3. OOD will request your NCI password and press Enter.  NOTE: it will not show any characters as you type them
  4. If successful, it will show a message "Your home directory now exists".  NOTE: it may timeout if you take too long to type your password; if that happens, refresh the webpage and try again.
  5. Close this tab/window
  6. Click the Restart Web Server link

OOD Dashboard and App launcher:

After successful login, you will see the OOD Dashboard with the various apps that your account has been enabled to run:

Figure 1: Home Screen of NCI OOD

Currently there are three targeted apps for the OOD pre-production:

  • JupyterLab: A dedicated JupyterLab session which can be used to run both short and compute intensive Jupyter notebooks.
    • It has been configured to also support scalable Pangeo jobs using multiple nodes for Dask-enabled notebooks.
  • VDI: A Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) session.
    • This replaces the existing service for NCI's VDI, which removes the need for Strudel desktop app.
    • It also has more dedicated and scalable backend resources than its predecessor VDI.
  • Gadi Terminal: A simple browser based terminal window to access to Gadi.

We are planning to expand our app base, with some additional apps already in pre-release testing.

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