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Mounting your object storage bucket as a local filesystem with Mountpoint

AWS has released an open source client called Mountpoint that allows you to easily mount your object storage bucket as a local filesystem. This blog post shows you the pros and cons of Mountpoint, and how to use it.

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RONIN Release: Tuesday 17th October 2023

RONIN LINK Rebuilt! Support for Ed25519 keys. Lots of other minor features and bug fixes.

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How to configure a RONIN machine as a public webserver

If you have configured a RONIN machine as a webserver and would like to open it up to the public internet, there are a few manual steps that need to be performed in the AWS console via a RONIN Administrator. This blog will run you through those key steps.

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Managing versions in object storage

Enabling versioning on an object storage bucket is a great way to make sure you never lose important work, but how exactly do you get a file version back if you want to revert your changes? This blog post covers everything you need to know about version management!

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RONIN Release: Thursday 22nd June 2023

PHP and AWS SDK updated, minor improvements and bug fixes.

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How to recover archived files from Glacier

The process of retrieving archived files from Glacier is pretty quick and simple once you know how, and this blog post will teach you just that!

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RONIN Release: Thursday 11th May 2023

Minor release - Improved machine quota notifications, improved machine metadata security, bug fixes.

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RONIN Release: Friday 31st March 2023

Introducing more Object Storage Version Management Options, Welcome Emails, Project Resumed Email Alerts, and the Ability to Automatically update Windows and Amazon Linux AMIs!

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Determining which DNS server to use for your RONIN Isolate

Since RONIN Isolate operates via internal IP addresses only, a custom DNS server will need to be set within your workspace in order for you to be able to connect to your RONIN Isolate machines. This blog post teaches you how.

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Creating Users a WorkSpace for RONIN Isolate

RONIN Isolate has been designed to only be able to be accessed via a secure enclave of machines called WorkSpaces. In this blog post we describe the process of creating WorkSpaces for RONIN Isolate users.

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RONIN Release: Tuesday 20th December 2022

Additional Object Storage Archiving Options! Improved filter when selecting machine types! Lots of helpful minor features, and some bug fixes to boot!

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Logging in to your RONIN Isolate AWS WorkSpace

RONIN Isolate has been designed to only be able to be accessed via a secure enclave of machines called WorkSpaces. In this blog post we describe the process of connecting to your WorkSpace for the first time.

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How to empty an Object Storage Bucket

This blog post will teach you how to easily empty all objects from an object storage bucket to get it ready for deletion.

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Creating a PostgreSQL Database in RONIN

We previously blogged about installing MySQL on a RONIN machine. But databases are different, and another open source database that is popular among researchers is PostgreSQL. This blog post teaches you how to install and connect to a PostgreSQL database with RONIN.

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RONIN Release: Tuesday 13th September 2022

RONIN LINK V2.3.0 - Upgraded RStudio, Custom DNS Settings, New Mount Drives Feature!

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Spack is Research Computing's Best Friend

Research and cloud computing are a perfect fit, but the reality of managing software on dynamic clusters in the cloud can be a challenge. Fortunately, nifty tools like Spack can help get you up and running with optimised versions of your required software in just minutes.

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RONIN Release: Friday 12th August 2022

Resize Drives in a Few Clicks! New Package Management and Storage Summary screens for Admins! Improved Dashboard with Better Storage Cost and Usage Data for Users! Ability to Manage Default OS Offerings, and So Much More!!

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Parallelizing Workloads With Slurm (Brute Force Edition)

One of the reasons researchers turn to clusters and Slurm is to run many independent jobs. Recently, we posted about how to use Slurm job arrays to do this. Here we describe some additional intuitive ways of getting the job(s) done.

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Parallelizing Workloads with Slurm Job Arrays

Do you have a script that needs to be run across many samples? Or maybe you need to parameter test a script with a variety of values? This blog post covers how to achieve this simply and efficiently with Slurm job arrays.

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Automatically syncing scripts to your RONIN machine with Visual Studio Code

Did you know that instead of having to manually copy scripts and other files over to your RONIN machine each time you make changes, you can instead have all of your changes automatically synced as soon as you hit save!? Here we show you how with Visual Studio Code.

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A simple Slurm guide for beginners

SLURM is a popular job scheduler that is used to allocate, manage and monitor jobs on your cluster. In this blog post we teach you the basics of submitting SLURM jobs on your very own auto scaling cluster in the cloud with RONIN.

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Preparing a Customized Windows Environment for Sharing

Want to share your custom Windows environment with other users but require them to set their own Administrator password? Find out how in this blog post!

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Creating and managing your own Galaxy server in RONIN

Galaxy is an open-source platform which allows users to use command-line tools via a graphical web interface. This blog post will teach you how to set up your own Galaxy server with RONIN.

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Visualising Genomic Data with IGV in RONIN

The Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) is one of the most popular free, open source software packages for the visual exploration of genomic data. In this blog post we will show you how to install and configure IGV on your machine or cluster with RONIN LINK.

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Documenting Your Workloads With Markdown

In this blog post we are going to focus on how to take your code documentation to the next level with a popular markup language known as Markdown.

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