software-collection VS Code Meets the Cloud: Data Science on a RONIN Machine Visual Studio Code (VS Code) can connect straight to a machine in the cloud, so you edit, run and debug code on that machine as if it were sitting on your desk - this blog shows you how!
AI Running Claude/Pi AI Agents with Local Models on a RONIN AI Machine Give Claude Code or Pi a locally hosted Ollama model on a GPU-powered RONIN AI Machine, with practical permission and security settings for real project work.
software-collection How to Automatically Shut Down Your EC2 Instance When It Is Idle Learn how to automatically stop your EC2 instance after a period of low CPU activity. This guide includes a simple cron-based script, Linux setup instructions, testing steps and an optional GPU-aware version.
software-collection Visualising the Future of Healthcare: Using 3D Slicer in RONIN Isolate Learn how to run 3D Slicer on a GPU-powered Linux machine in RONIN Isolate. This step-by-step guide covers provisioning AWS compute, connecting through RONIN Link and NICE DCV, and exploring medical images within a secure cloud environment.
admin-collection Deploying Veyon as a Classroom Manager on RONIN Deploy Veyon for cloud-based classrooms on RONIN with DCV. Learn how to configure teacher and student machines and scale your lab with RONIN packages.
rstudio Supercharge your Statistics with JAGS and Stan on RONIN Get JAGS and Stan up and running with RONIN in minutes. Skip painful installs by using RONIN LINK and pre-configured repos, then verify both Bayesian tools in RStudio so you can dive straight into powerful statistical modelling.
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.
Kubernetes Deploying Kubernetes in single-node mode on a RONIN machine Do you have a Kubernetes application that you would like to test or develop in the cloud, but don't want to get into the nitty gritty of having to set up and configure a whole cluster? This blog post will show you how to set up Kubernetes on a RONIN machine in just minutes with MicroK8s.
software-collection How to install and use Quarto with RStudio on a RONIN Machine Quarto is an open-source tool designed for writing dynamic documents incorporating code chunks for data analysis, visualization, and other computational tasks. This blog post shows you how to install and use Quarto with RStudio on a RONIN Machine.
software-collection Accessing your RONIN object storage with Rclone Rclone is a command-line program that allows you to copy, sync, and move files between your local system to various cloud storage services. This blog post will teach you how to install and configure Rclone to manage files in your object storage bucket.
jupyter Enhancing AI Research: Seamlessly Connecting RONIN's Jupyter Notebook to Google Colab Google Colab is a free hosted Jupyter Notebook service. This blog post will walk you through all the steps you need to connect Google Colab to your RONIN machine so that you can receive all the benefits of the Google Colab platform, without being restricted by computational power.
mlflow Creating an MLFlow server in RONIN MLFlow is an open source platform for managing machine learning (ML) workflows. This blog post teaches you how to set up a MLFlow server in RONIN.
s3 Mounting your object storage bucket as a local filesystem with Mountpoint AWS has released an open source client called Mountpoint that allows you to easily mount your object storage bucket as a local filesystem. This blog post shows you the pros and cons of Mountpoint, and how to use it.
postgresql Creating a PostgreSQL Database in RONIN We previously blogged about installing MySQL on a RONIN machine. But databases are different, and another open source database that is popular among researchers is PostgreSQL. This blog post teaches you how to install and connect to a PostgreSQL database with RONIN.
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 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.
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!
software-collection 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.
hpc 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.
igv 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.
software-collection Documenting Your Workloads With Markdown In this blog post we are going to focus on how to take your code documentation to the next level with a popular markup language known as Markdown.
application 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.
database Creating a MySQL Database in RONIN Databases are not necessarily part of a researcher's daily toolkit, although they are an important part of websites, data management systems, and popular repositories of data that researchers access.
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.
matlab 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.
