Interactive Apps

Interactive apps are applications that run on the ABCI compute nodes and can be interactively operated in the web browser.

To launch an interactive app, you open the app, specify an ABCI group and a type of ABCI resource, and click the "Launch" button. The interactive app is launched as a batch job that consumes ABCI points from the specified group. Once the interactive app is launched, the link to connect to it is displayed, by clicking which you can use the app.

Open OnDemand for ABCI provides the following interactive apps:

Jupyter Lab

Open OnDemand for ABCI provides Jupyter Lab, an interactive development environment. Jupyter Lab is launched on the compute nodes, allowing you to operate it from the browser on your side.

Caution

Each time Jupyter Lab is launched, a Python virtual environment for Jupyter Lab will be created in the following path under your home directory. Please delete it periodically.

~/ondemand/data/sys/dashboard/batch_connect/sys/jupyter_app/jupyter_app/output/

code-server

Open OnDemand for ABCI provides code-server, allowing you to use Visual Studio Code on the compute node through web browser on your side. Simply select "Code Server" in Open OnDemand Dashboard and launch a job with an appropriate resource type specified.

Interactive Desktop

Open OnDemand for ABCI provides Interactive Desktop(Xfce), allowing you to operate on the compute node through web browser on your side. Simply select "Interactive Desktop" in Open OnDemand Dashboard and launch vncserver.

Info

Connecting to Interactive Desktop and opening terminal, you can practice the GPU rendering following the commands below.

module load turbovnc; vglrun -d egl<GPUID> <OpenGL command>