Xavier Pillons [Microsoft]
Xavier Pillons — Principal Technical Program Manager, Microsoft (Azure HPC). 20+ years in HPC. Focused on Azure CycleCloud, Slurm, Open OnDemand, and developer productivity.
xpillons@microsoft.com
www.linkedin.com/in/xpillons
Sessions
This BoF brings together users and resource providers that are interested in running interactive graphical applications in Open OnDemand. This can be web applications like Jupyter Notebooks or desktop applications like RStudio, Matlab or Visual Studio Code.
Open OnDemand (OOD) provides researchers with a streamlined, browser-based HPC experience. This session covers deploying and operating OOD on Azure CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm, including provisioning the OOD VM, integrating Microsoft Entra ID with OpenID Connect and federated credentials, and auto-registering Slurm clusters for dynamic partition discovery. We'll demo browser-based VS Code for interactive development, explore when to use Cendio ThinLinc for enhanced visualization, and show how AI Agents like GitHub Copilot inside VS Code can rapidly build new OOD apps and templates.