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release-collection

RONIN Release: Wednesday 27th March 2024

New Object Storage Bucket Migration and Management Screen for Admins! IPV4 pricing, improved support communication methods, improved RONIN audit logging, bucket creation dates and more Windows launch script options!

spack

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.

software-collection

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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Modeling Air Quality With RONIN and Odycloud

In this post, we have invited Arturo Fernandez, founder of Odycloud, to describe how he scales research IT support for a variety of air quality and weather modeling problems.

classroom

Virtual Classrooms in RONIN

The creation of virtual classrooms in the cloud with RONIN means students are no longer confined to the physical hardware available at their institution, and professors have a simple way of ensuring all students have access to the same environment to complete their coursework.

admin

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...

cluster

Configuring and Managing Your own Autoscaling Cluster

Configuring and managing your own autoscaling cluster in the cloud does take a bit of getting used to. Luckily we're here to teach you the ropes and help you get your cluster set up just the way you like it!

software

Installing and Managing Bioinformatics Software with Conda

One of the first hurdles when getting started with cloud computing is understanding how to best install and manage the software you wish to use for your analyses. Fortunately, this can be a breeze thanks to the package management system known as Conda.

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

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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 returning here I have

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.

service

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

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

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?!

terminate

Terminating Machines in RONIN

If you no longer require a machine, you can terminate it. Terminating a machine in RONIN is permanent and irreversable!!! There are no do-overs! Be careful!

help

Searching for Resources and Projects in RONIN

On the search results page, you will see everything that you have access to. Start typing in one of the search bars to narrow your results, or look for a particular Project, Machine, Storage or Package

machines

Managing your Machines in RONIN

The Machine Summary screen is your go-to for everything machine related!