Material for Open OnDemand and MyLRC web portals traing held on 2 February 2023

Open OnDemand (OOD) is browser-based High Performance Computing (HPC) portal supported by NSF. OOD is the easiest way to access HPC resources in addition to the command line approach. The Scientific High Performance Computing group offers the Open OnDemand service for accessing Lawrencium and other dedicated research clusters in our HPC infrastructure.

MyLRC is a web platform designed for automated management of Lawrencium cluster accounts, including user accounts, PCA, condo and recharge projects, billing reports, and project ID validation.

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This workshop is a handson cpurse on OOD on Lawrencium supercluster and MyLRC User portal for account requests and management. This training will cover the following topics.

Part I : Using MyLRC portal

  • Getting a user account on LRC
  • Getting access to project
  • Requesting project account and management

Part II : OOD Applications

  • Command-line shell access
  • File management
  • Interactive server and GUI applications, such Jupyter Notebook, Matlab and RStudio
  • Full linux desktop streaming via web for GUI heavy jobs such as VMD, ParaView
  • Customize Jupyter kernels
  • Job management and monitoring

Date: Thursday, Feb 2, 2023
Time: 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Zoom Meeting: a link will be available upon registration
Prerequisite: a user account is preferred but not required
To request a Lawrencium account, please see “How to get a User Account on Lawrencium/Adding Additional Users to Your Project” at https://it.lbl.gov/resource/hpc/for-users/hpc-documentation/accounts/user-accounts
No previous experience with HPC is necessary.
Contact us at hpcshelp@lbl.gov if you have any questions.


This repository contains slides for HPC Open OnDemand training on Lawrencium cluster. The slides and video recording of the presentation can be access here.

The slides are made using Marpit markdown slide deck framework and converted to HTML format using prebuild export slide deck tool in VSCode.