v1.0 Release Notes

Highlights in 1.0:

  • Launch interactive HPC Desktop sessions with new dashboard “batch connect” plugin
  • PBSPro support
  • LSF 9.1 partial support [1]

Upgrading to 1.0

See Updating.

Components

The two tables below show the versions of each infrastructure component or app that make up this release.

Infrastructure

Table 12 Infrastructure Component Versions
Component Version
ood-portal-generator 0.4.0
mod_ood_proxy 0.3.1
ood_auth_map 0.0.3
nginx_stage 0.2.1

Table 12 lists the versions of each component that make up the infrastructure for this release.

Applications

Table 13 Application Versions
App Version
Dashboard App 1.15.2
Shell App 1.2.3
Files App 1.3.5
File Editor App 1.3.1
Active Jobs App 1.5.0
My Jobs App 2.5.0
Desktops App 0.1.1

Table 13 lists the versions of each app for this release.

All of the above apps are installed and maintained by version 1.0.0 of the ood-apps-installer utility.

Infrastructure Changes

ood-portal-generator (from v0.3.1 to v0.4.0)

Please refer to the Changelog for details.

mod_ood_proxy (from v0.2.0 to v0.3.1)

Please refer to the Changelog for details.

App Changes

Dashboard App (from v1.12.0 to v1.15.2)

Please refer to the Changelog for details.

Notable changes:

  1. Add interactive app support to OOD with new plugin architecture. “Batch connect” plugins start a server on a batch job and enable the user to connect to it through the dashboard. Examples of plugins this feature is able to support include Desktop via VNC, Paraview GUI app via VNC, and directly connecting to Jupyter or RStudio servers.

Shell App (from v1.2.2 to v1.2.3)

Please refer to the Changelog for details.

Files App (from v1.3.3 to v1.3.5)

Please refer to the Changelog for details.

Active Jobs App (from v1.4.4 to v1.5.0)

Please refer to the Changelog for details.

Notable changes:

  1. Add PBSPro support
  2. Add partial LSF 9.1 support [1]
  3. Show detail pane with more information for LSF

My Jobs App (from v2.4.1 to v2.5.0)

Please refer to the Changelog for details.

Notable changes:

  1. Add PBSPro support
  2. Add partial LSF 9.1 support [1]

Desktops App (added v0.1.1)

Desktops is a “batch connect” plugin for the dashboard that enables launching an interactive HPC Desktop session by VNC.

See Install Desktops for installation directions.

Please refer to the Changelog for details.

Footnotes

[1](1, 2, 3) We currently don’t have access to an LSF 9.1 system to properly test our LSF adapter. We only have access to LSF 8.3.