Integrating Interactive Jupyter Notebooks at the BNL SDCC

Abstract

At the SDCC we are deploying a Jupyterhub infrastructure to enable scientists from multiple disciplines to access our diverse compute and storage resources. One major design goal was to avoid rolling out yet another compute backend, but rather to leverage our pre-existing resources via our batch systems (HTCondor and Slurm). Challenges faced include creating a frontend that allows users to choose what HPC resources they have access to as well as selecting containers or environments, delegating authentication to a MFA-enabled proxy, and automating deployment of multiple hub instances. This paper covers the design and features of our Jupyterhub service.