machine

A collection of 25 posts

release-collection

RONIN Release: Tuesday 12th December 2023

New machine layout for managing many single machines, SSD upgrades, and some minor bug fixes.

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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.

software-collection

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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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.

software-collection

Version Control of Your Scripts with Git

Git is an essential version control tool for anyone who writes their own code or scripts. This blog post will give you a simple introduction to the beginner fundamentals of Git.

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....

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Your RONIN Superpower: The sudo Command

Everyone who creates a machine or a cluster in RONIN has a superpower: the ability to become somebody else. Another user on that computer, that is, including the supreme superuser who has permissions to do anything, whose name is "root".

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Creating a MATLAB Machine

MATLAB is a programming and numeric computing platform used by millions of engineers and scientists to analyse data, develop algorithms, and create models. This blog post will show you how to create a MATLAB machine with RONIN.

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Parallelising Jobs with GNU Parallel

In the cloud, you can easily scale the size of your computing resources to fit your needs, meaning you have the ability to run many commands or scripts in parallel. This is where GNU parallel comes in handy!

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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

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Pipeline Alerts with Slack Webhooks

Keeping an eye on any analyses that are running in the cloud is crucial, but watching a terminal window all day is no fun! What if there was a way you could also be alerted whenever a pipeline errors or completes? Well, with a nifty tool like Slack's Incoming Webhooks, you can!

netdata

Easy and Extensive Resource Monitoring with Netdata

When running analyses in the cloud, it's essential that you can monitor your resource usage. Understanding your compute usage is crucial in ensuring your analyses are running as efficiently as possible and making the most of your valuable cloud dollars.

conda

Adding a Conda Environment to Jupyter Notebook

We will show you how easy it is to create a conda environment and adding it to your Jupyter notebook. If you haven't launched a Jupyter notebook on RONIN, you'll want to read the Accessing a Jupyter notebook with RONIN on how to do so before

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Accessing a Jupyter Notebook with RONIN

First up let's fire up a new Ubuntu machine. If you need a reminder on how to do that click here. Note: Some pre-configured software packages, such as the Deep Learning packages, will already come with Jupyter Notebook installed. You can select one of these packages instead of

docker

Setting up a Database in a RONIN Machine

Setting up a database in a RONIN machine and connecting to that machine from another RONIN machine is really simple within a project.

ssh

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

docker

Create and Connect to a Docker Machine with RONIN

Watch this video to see how easy it is to create and connect to a Docker machine.

rstudio

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

storage

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

packages

Packaging Machines in RONIN

So, you've created an awesome machine. Instead of doing this set up each time you need a new machine with the same configuration, why not package this machine?!

schedule

Scheduling Machines in RONIN

Are you human? Us too! One of the real drawbacks to being a human is we have the capacity to forget things, like turning things off when we don't need them. Smart Schedule to the rescue!

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Connecting to Windows with RDP

To connect to Windows in RONIN, we need to utilise something called Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

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Transferring Files to Your New Machine

Now that you've created a machine, we will use Cyberduck to move our precious files up to this machine.

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Connecting to Linux (Ubuntu) Machine via SSH

To make use of your newly created Linux machine, you need to connect to it via SSH or Secure Shell. Time to get your hands dirty!

Getting Started Featured

Creating a Machine in RONIN

Creating a machine is easy in RONIN, we take care of all the tricky bits.