Jacob Boschee [University of British Columbia]
Jacob Boschee is a Systems Administrator with the Advanced Research Computing group at UBC. He began his background in systems administration at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology where he maintained the research cluster on campus while completing his PhD in Physics. His research background is in quantum computing, phononics, and computational modelling.
As a part of UBC ARC he assists researchers with utilizing the system and developing new services that can support researchers of all backgrounds and skill levels.
Session
The Advanced Research Computing department at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have been supporting a local HPC cluster for use by the entire UBC research community for nearly a decade. With a demand for more interactive computing options coming from our researchers, we have begun implementing Open OnDemand as a portal for accessing our resources and with that has come challenges around our currently existing architecture. This talk will provide a detailed, yet high-level overview of the challenges we faced and the solutions we explored. By sharing our journey, we hope to provide other system administrators with a view of both the ease of modifying Open OnDemand for current systems, as well as potential challenges to keep in mind when exploring adding Open OnDemand.