HPC Access

The UVA High Performance Computing (HPC) systems (Rivanna and Afton) are accessible through a web portal, secure shell terminals, or a remote desktop environment. See the official documentation.

Service Unit Allocation: The course is using the ds2002 allocation. You will need to enter ds2002 in the allocation field when requesting access to an interactive Open OnDemand session (like Desktop or JupyterLab), or when submitting compute jobs (you’ll learn about this in Module 3).

Login via Web Browser

Open OnDemand is a graphical user interface that allows access to HPC via a web browser. The Open OnDemand access point is ood.hpc.virginia.edu. Within the Open OnDemand environment users have access to a file explorer; interactive applications like JupyterLab, RStudio Server & FastX Web; a command line interface; and a job composer and job monitor to submit jobs to the Rivanna and Afton clusters. Detailed instructions can be found on the Open OnDemand documentation page.

Step 1: Start Open OnDemand

To start the Open OnDemand web client, go to https://ood.hpc.virginia.edu. Your login is your UVA computing ID and your password is your Netbadge password.

Proceed with Step 2a or Step 2b.

Step 2a: JupyterLab

Follow the Open OnDemand JupyterLab instructions.

Enter ds2002 in the allocation field.

The form should look like this:

After you click Launch it may take a few minutes to start up. This is expected as we are sharing the cluster with hundreds of other users.

Step 2b: Linux Desktop

Follow the Open OnDemand Desktop instructions.

Enter ds2002 in the allocation field.

After you click Launch it may take a few minutes to start up. This is expected as we are sharing the cluster with hundreds of other users.