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A collection of 10 posts

Selecting the Right Machine Type for the Right Job

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.

Configuring and Managing Your own Autoscaling 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!

Parallelising Jobs with GNU Parallel

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!

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

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

Running Commands in the Background with GNU Screen

Getting Started

Running Commands in the Background with GNU Screen

Being able to run commands and scripts directly from the command-line is great; however, some commands or scripts may need to run for extended periods without interruption. GNU Screen provides a simple solution to ensure your analyses are never prematurely terminated again.

Auto Scale a Cluster.

Auto Scale a Cluster.

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

Ganglia on Auto Scale Clusters

Ganglia on Auto Scale Clusters

All RONIN Clusters get a free open source tool called Ganglia to help monitor your hardware. This article shows you how

Create an Auto Scale 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!

Changing / Resizing Machines in RONIN

Changing / Resizing Machines in RONIN

Change the size of your machine with just a few clicks. From a machine with 1 vCPU and 0.5 GiB of RAM to a whopping 128 vCPUs and a 3,904 GiB of RAM