HMS Research Computing is excited to announce the O2 Portal, a web-based interface for the O2 compute cluster, which provides extensive computational resources to hundreds of HMS and affiliated labs.

O2 includes hundreds of large computers, GPU cards, life science software titles, and consultants to help use it. The use of O2 is free to labs with a primary or secondary faculty appointment in an HMS Blavatnik Institute Basic and Social Science Department. Other HMS-affiliated labs can pay to use O2 through the HMS Research Computing Core.

O2 Portal includes various tools accessible via the same single-sign-on interface, including:

• View and edit files
• Run and mange interactive or batch jobs
• Data-transfer interface
• Graphical applications such as RStudio, Shiny, Jupyter, IGV, MATLAB
• Command-line terminals

You must first have or request an O2 account to access the O2 Portal.

The O2 Portal runs Open OnDemand (OOD), an NSF-funded, open-source software that facilitates access to HPC resources. Open OnDemand was created and is maintained by the Ohio Supercomputer Center.

For more information, visit the O2 Portal online documentation.