Paula C Sanematsu [Harvard]
Paula joined FAS Research Computing in March 2022 and has been involved in user training, software installation and optimization, Open OnDemand app development, and storage benchmarking. Before joining Harvard, she worked on a wide range of computational modeling projects, from flow and nanoparticle transport in porous media to tissue mechanics during embryonic development.

Sessions
We present our experience of leveraging several publicly available container projects for RStudio Server and PostGIS/PostgreSQL Open OnDemand interactive apps. These containers have pre-configured software stacks that facilitate easier application-specific package installation by users, reducing user support requests on computing center staff. This talk describes the user-friendly OOD interfaces to these complex apps and how the containers are launched on an HPC cluster with Singularity.