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Enhanced Open OnDemand functionality provided by ABCI 3.0

Thank you for your continued patronage of ABCI.

We are pleased to announce that the following two feature enhancements will be added to Open OnDemand1 provided in ABCI 3.0. These enhancements will be available starting Friday, June 20, 2025, at 2:00 PM.

New Features Overview

1 . Code Server（VS Code for the Web）

This feature allows you to use Visual Studio Code (VS Code) in your web browser. The following operations are available:

  • Providing the same development environment as normal VS Code
  • Using the terminal
  • Integration with Git

User can use VS Code on the Compute Node by selecting “Code Server” from the Open OnDemand dashboard and starting a job after specifying the resource type.

2 . Interactive Desktop

This feature allows you to operate a remote Linux desktop environment on a web browser. It enables GUI-based operation of ABCI 3.0 and is suitable for the following applications:

  • Graphical interactive operations in a web browser
  • Intuitive file manipulation via GUI
  • Use of GUI applications

User can select “Interactive Desktop” from the Open OnDemand dashboard and operate it from their local work PC browser.

Start date and time of provision

Friday, June 20, 2025, 2:00 p.m.

We will continue to strive to improve our services so that you can use ABCI more comfortably in the future. We look forward to your continued patronage of ABCI.

For details on how to use Open OnDemand, please refer to the user guide.

user guide： https://docs.abci.ai/v3/en/open-ondemand/interactive-apps/

contact：abci3-qa@abci.ai

  1. Open OnDemand is an open source portal system that provides access to high-performance computing (HPC) environments via a web browser. It is GUI-based and designed to improve user convenience. ↩

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