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A collection of 14 posts

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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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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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Useful Desktop Apps For Researchers

Because many researchers work closely with the command line to run their analyses, managing and documenting scripts and workloads is key for reproducibility. In this blog post we describe three helpful classes of desktop applications that you can use to better manage your research workflows.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Supporting Researchers on the Cloud

It's obvious, isn't it? The purpose of research computing support is to enable researchers to conduct more research faster, to make new discoveries, to publish more influential papers, obtain more grant funding, and train the next generation. But in practice...

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Prepare AWS SSO to Connect to RONIN

This article will guide you through the steps to create RONIN as an application in AWS SSO to prepare to have it connected to your RONIN login. We will assume you have AWS SSO set up on an AWS account already and a RONIN deployed. In the AWS console go

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Research Computing with RONIN on AWS Webinar Series

Researchers demonstrating benefits of RONIN and AWS in the real world. This 3 part webinar series hosted by AWS, shows real life examples of researchers using RONIN and AWS. A beginner’s guide to genomics in the cloud with RONIN and AWSReady to harness the power of cloud computing for

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Creating a Custom BLAST Server with SequenceServer

BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is a popular bioinformatics tool for finding regions of similarity between sequences. With RONIN and SequenceServer, you can set up your own custom BLAST server in just a few simple steps.

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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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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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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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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!