Karen Tomko [Ohio Supercomputer Center]
Karen Tomko, Ph.D., serves as Director of Research Software Applications and Manager of the Scientific Applications group at the Ohio Supercomputer Center. Tomko also serves on the steering committee for the Midwest Research Computing and Data Consortium and is a member of the leadership team for the ICICLE AI institute. Her research interests include communication runtimes, application parallelization and tuning, and cyberinfrastructure for AI.
Sessions
The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) saw increased use of its OSC OnDemand web interface for classroom applications during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for R and Python. To address challenges in creating shareable and reproducible environments, OSC customized RStudio and Jupyter Notebooks for a dedicated classroom OOD instance. This setup allows instructors to manage and configure software environments for students, ensuring consistency and reducing setup time. Instructors can also access student workspaces to review and manage homework.