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Spack is Research Computing's Best Friend

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.

Creating and managing your own Galaxy server in RONIN

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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.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Supporting Researchers on the Cloud

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...

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!

An Introduction to Linux Directories and the PATH Variable

An Introduction to Linux Directories and the PATH Variable

To effectively manage your compute environment in the cloud, you need to understand the Linux directory structure, as well as key environment variables such as the PATH variable. This blog post is here to teach you the basics.

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

Installing and Managing Bioinformatics Software with Conda

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.

Creating a Custom BLAST Server with SequenceServer

Creating a Custom BLAST Server with SequenceServer

BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is a popular bioinformatics tool for finding regions of similarity between sequences. With RONIN and SequenceServer, you can set up your own custom BLAST server in just a few simple steps.

Packaging Clusters in RONIN

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

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

SSH and Windows 10

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

Setting up Your Organisation's Package Catalogue with RONIN

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

Creating and Connecting to RStudio with RONIN LINK

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

RONIN LINK - Our Handy Desktop App! (v3.0.7)

RONIN LINK - Our Handy Desktop App! (v3.0.7)

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

SSH Tunnelling with PuTTY

SSH Tunnelling with PuTTY

Now that you've connected to your machine with PuTTY, you may be wondering how you might create a secure SSH tunnel to your application. No, you can't just use regular ssh commands for some reason (who knew?!)

Accessing Your Server Application with SSH Port Forwarding

Accessing Your Server Application with SSH Port Forwarding

Port forwarding via SSH (SSH tunneling) creates a secure connection between a local computer and a remote machine through which services can be relayed. Port forwarding with SSH to the rescue!