Aaron Albrighton

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AWS Best Practices when using RONIN

We recommend all of our customers use the AWS Well Architected Tool to ensure when using RONIN that they adhere to the AWS Well-Architected Five Pillars Framework.

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RONIN Release: Tuesday 7th July 2020

RONIN LINK 2.0! DCV Integration! RONIN Multi-Account Mode! RONIN Secure Stream! RONIN Shield! Data Lakes! All of the things..

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RONIN Release: Wednesday 18th March 2020

New Email Budget Notifications! Plus a new version of RONIN LINK

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SSH and Windows 10

Connecting to machines in Windows just got a whole lot easier. Here's how you do it when you can't use RONIN LINK

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RONIN Release: Tuesday 3rd December 2019

HPC Service Catalogue! EFA Enabled Machines! People Admin Screen! Parallel Cluster v2.4.1 and loads more..

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RONIN Release: Monday 8th July 2019

Cluster Packaging, Spack Integration, Cyberduck Profiles!

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RONIN Release: Tuesday 14th May 2019

HPC Dashboard and Storage Resize Tools

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RONIN Release: Thursday 25th April 2019

RONIN LINK Integration and so Much More!

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Troubleshooting Connectivity

Connecting to machines can be tricky, especially from within secure, locked down environments. We've created this page to help you determine where the problem lies.

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Ganglia on Auto Scale Clusters

All RONIN Clusters get a free open source tool called Ganglia to help monitor your hardware. This article shows you how

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Create an Auto Scale Cluster

Auto Scale Clusters in RONIN are your very own High Performance Computers that automatically scale by CPU's as workloads get more intensive. They're really easy to fire up. No, really!

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Setting up Your Organisation's Package Catalogue with RONIN

This article shows how RONIN can be used to provide an organisational service catalog, using our Packaging and Administration tools

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Creating and Connecting to RStudio with RONIN LINK

In this video, we will show you how to get started with RStudio in RONIN, from creating a new machine with RStudio installed, to accessing it through your web browser via RONIN LINK

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Connect Your Linux Machine to Your Object Storage Bucket with AWS Command Line Interface

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be many nice 'clickety click' interfaces for moving files between Linux and Object Stores... But that's ok! Let's get started!

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Connect Your Windows / Mac to Your Object Storage Bucket with Cyberduck

In our previous article, we explained Object Storage, versioning and archiving. Once you have created an object store and generated a key, you can then connect to it!

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Login to RONIN - Two-Factor Authentication Explained

RONIN just got a whole lot more secure! Introducing Two Factor Authentication!

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RONIN LINK - Our Handy Desktop App!

We aim to minimise the complexity of cloud, not just those with IT degrees. Introducing our new SSH desktop app for Ubuntu - RONIN LINK!

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Working with Object Storage (AWS S3 and Glacier) in RONIN

We've been busy here at RONIN, simplifying Amazon's S3, versioning and Glacier, so that everyone can benefit from what the cloud has to offer, not just tech savvy nerds like us.

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Your Project Backups (Snapshots) Summary

Here at RONIN, we aim to simplify everything related to cloud computing. We decided the word backup is a simplified word for snapshot.

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SSH Tunnelling with PuTTY

Now that you've connected to your machine with PuTTY, you may be wondering how you might create a secure SSH tunnel to your application. No, you can't just use regular ssh commands for some reason (who knew?!)

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Accessing Your Server Application with SSH Port Forwarding

Port forwarding via SSH (SSH tunneling) creates a secure connection between a local computer and a remote machine through which services can be relayed. Port forwarding with SSH to the rescue!

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An AWS Introduction to RONIN

We recently presented RONIN at an AWS webinar! Watch how the RONIN team transform your AWS account into a finely tuned self-service research platform

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SSH Commands and Default Usernames

We thought it would be a good idea to give you some default SSH commands and usernames to make connecting easier. If you are having difficulty, check out our connecting to linux via SSH article for more information.

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Your Project Storage Summary

We think it's a good idea to have a summary of all your project's storage volumes accessible with quick actions and the ability to create blank storage volumes, and volumes from snapshots on one easy to access page. We also suggest you become familiar with how

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Managing Storage Drives in RONIN

A storage volume is a durable, block-level storage device that you can attach to a single machine. You can use storage volumes as primary storage for data of any sort, it can be a root volume for an operating system, or data that requires frequent updates, or for throughput-intensive applications.