NSF Award Will Support Texas A&M’s Improvements To Open OnDemand Applications And Features

Texas A&M University will play a central role in expanding Open OnDemand, a widely used web portal for high-performance computing, through a new $5 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The effort, led by the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) in collaboration with Texas A&M, the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center and the University of Maryland, aims to advance tools and features to make high-performance computing more accessible to researchers, educators and students across the country.

Dr. Dhruva Chakravorty, director for user services and research at Texas A&M’s High Performance Research Computing (HPRC) facility, serves as co-principal investigator and will guide an initiative to help researchers design, develop and share applications for the portal. This effort will broaden its capabilities, establishing the university as a significant contributor to innovations that make high-performance computing more adaptable for the academic and research community.

Launched by OSC in 2017, Open OnDemand is deployed by thousands of institutions worldwide, giving over half a million users an intuitive way to access high-performance computing. The new NSF-funded initiative, Growing Open OnDemand: Leveraging Unified Community Knowledge (GOODLUCK), will expand the platform’s reach to support greater collaboration and accessibility for emerging users.

As part of this overall initiative, the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center will lead community engagement through global events and outreach while the University of Maryland will develop customized toolsets and training resources tailored to specific research needs.

For more information on the portal, visit https://openondemand.org.