Colby’s third rebuild of https:/jupyter.colby.edu is available.
This rebuild (v3?) is focused on classroom usage, with psych248/psych348, as the initial focus.
If you can’t login and think you might make use of this instance of a jupyterhub, email support with a subject line “login jupyter.colby.edu please” and explain why and how.
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Thanks to a yeoman effort by Walker Griggs (graduating senior and kubernetes savant), we are trying out a new service based on jupyterhub notebooks.
Currently, it supports minimal python 3 notebooks as well as text files through containers orchestrated via kubernetes with storage provided by a glusterfs federation. The entire system is built off of our local cloud instance using our production HPC resources.
Give it a try at: https://jupyter.colby.edu. Login with your Colby credentials, you start with a 10gig allocation, but please make sure to back your work up as this is a testing environment.
You can add python packages by opening a terminal, and typing
pip install --user <packagename>
by using –user the pip install puts the package in you 10gig of storage, which will persist when the container is recreated at next login or after 3 hours of inaacativity. The downside is that any running kernel won’t know about the install. To overcome this simply click on the running tab on the main window:
find the notebook you want to notice the installed package, click shutdown. Then reopen the notebook from the files menu. A new kernel will be instantiated and it will notice the addions you have made that are installed in your home directory.
If you have any comments/insights/complaints, send us a not at [email protected]