onBunya

onBunya is for all HPC Bunya users, providing researchers with an easily accessible graphical user interface (GUI) and remote web access to the powerful hardware Bunya has to offer.

All Bunya users gain access to onBunya automatically. Simply visit our onBunya user guide for the link.

The first and current iteration of onBunya makes it easy to run GUI software on the HPC.

onBunya provides two major benefits:

1. It is an easier introduction to the HPC environment for people who are not familiar with the command line. 
2. Some workflows require the ability to see visual output, and onBunya provides a platform to do that.

onBunya provides two important environments for researchers:

1. A graphical desktop interface where they can run GUI apps on Bunya. 
2. A platform for running GUI applications on Bunya but where the GUI is a web interface and thus a whole desktop is not necessary (a very notable and popular example of this is Jupyter).

As onBunya is running on the same platform as any other HPC job, it is important for users to log out once their session has ended to make room for others. 

The RCC team is looking to add more web-based applications to onBunya over time, as opposed to apps that run on desktops. Please contact the RCC Service Desk with any web-based app requests.

onBunya features Open OnDemand, open-source software with a large international community behind it.

For more information, please read the Bunya user guide if you are not familiar with the supercomputer, and please read the onBunya user guide.