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Troubleshooting Tips for Slurm and AWS ParallelCluster

In this blog post we present some tips to help you troubleshoot some of the most common issues researchers come across when using SLURM and ParallelCluster.

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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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Connecting to your Machine/Head Node's Desktop via DCV

Features Virtual Machines Desktop with DCV - Secure Cloud Desktops Install and Run your virtual machine Desktop securely with RONIN LINK 2.0 and above Fully encrypted, low latency, GPU / non GPU supported instance types After creating your Windows/Linux machine: Step 1 - Open RONIN LINK Step 2 -

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Copying Large Datasets to Your Object Storage Bucket with the AWS Command Line Interface

The beauty of having your data in your object storage (S3 bucket) is that any machine or projects you create in RONIN can access the data.. only if you want it to. If you're a Windows or Mac user, you can read this article on copying data to an object

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Connecting to a Public S3 Bucket

Connecting to a public S3 bucket is alot easier than connecting a Linux machine to your S3 bucket I have a Public Object Store already, lets get started! Step 1 - Download and Setup the Amazon Command Line Interface (CLI) Amazon provide a wonderful article on [installing the CLI here]

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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

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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 Ubuntu or

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What is Hyper-Threading?

Watch this awesome short video using food analogies to get an understanding of what Hyper-threading is!

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How to Enable Intel MPI?

Intel Message Passing Interface (MPI) is now available on the AWS ParallelCluster AMIs. To enable Intel MPI instead of Open MPI, the Intel MPI module must be loaded first. You can install the latest using module load intelmpi. The exact name of the module changes with every update. Step 1

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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.

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