beginner-collection

A collection of 40 posts

software-collection

Meet apt: Your Ubuntu Software Sorcerer

New to Ubuntu and not sure how to install your favourite software? Learn how to use the `apt` package manager to install, update, and manage software from the terminal.

beginner-collection

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!

beginner-collection

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!

beginner-collection

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.

s3

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.

slurm

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.

slurm

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.

slurm

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.

instance

Selecting the Right Machine Type for the Right Job

RONIN and cloud computing represent a different way of thinking. Choosing a machine type means understanding how different selections for CPU, memory, storage, and other characteristics will affect the time to do your work. This blog post will provide some guidelines for choosing wisely.

aws

Using Spot Instances to Reduce Cluster Costs

By requesting unused AWS EC2 instances at a discounted price via the Spot market, you can significantly reduce your cluster costs. This article will explain the pros and cons of Spot instances and provide you with some tips for getting started.

hpc

A Beginner's Glossary for HPC in the Cloud

High Performance Computing (HPC) has its own terminology, which is complexified (a real word!) by cloud terminology. Our goal is to simply define these terms to make it easier for users who are not cloud or IT gurus to create and launch clusters using RONIN on AWS....

cluster

New Machine or New Autoscaling Cluster? Which Should I Choose?

When you begin to work with RONIN you are immediately faced with a choice — do you create a new machine? Or an autoscaling cluster? And what is the difference and why do you have to choose at all? Machines A machine is a single computer, even though it can have

storage

Data Management in RONIN

Effective data management is crucial in the cloud but with so many storage options available, things can be a little confusing. This blog post summarises all you need to know about the different data storage options in RONIN and when to use them.

cluster

Packaging Clusters in RONIN

In RONIN, a package is a cluster template that is ready to create preconfigured cluster, defined by you! Packages will have an Operating System, a Root Volume (for the operating system) and any user defined volumes, such as datasets, files, or pretty much anything you want. It will also have

rdp

Connecting to your Machine / Auto Scale Cluster Desktop with DCV

Features * Virtual Machines Desktop with DCV - Secure Cloud Desktops * Install and Run your virtual machine Desktop securely with RONIN LINK 2.0 and above * Fully encrypted, low latency, GPU / non GPU supported instance types After creating your Windows/Linux machine: Step 1 - Open RONIN LINK Step 2 -

data

Copying Large Datasets to Your Object Storage Bucket with the AWS Command Line Interface

The beauty of having your data in your object storage (S3 bucket) is that any machine or projects you create in RONIN can access the data.. only if you want it to. If you're a Windows or Mac user, you can read this article on copying data to

allocation

Auto Scale a Cluster.

Easy to follow guide on how to scale a cluster on RONIN.

Hyper-threading

What is Hyper-Threading?

Watch this awesome short video using food analogies to get an understanding of what Hyper-threading is!

troubleshoot

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.

cluster

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!

object

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!

object

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!

connect

RONIN LINK - Our Handy Desktop App! (v3.0.8)

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

object

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.

snapshot

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.