How to work with the IFB cluster

You're going to use JupyterHub, a web application that lets you create JupyterLab servers on the IFB cluster.

Sign in on IFB cluster JupyterHub

In a web browser, connect to https://jupyterhub.cluster.france-bioinformatique.fr/ and log in using your IFB username and password.

JupyterHub

Bookmark this URL in your browser for easy retrieval.

Select your server options

On the following screen you can select the option used by our JupyterHub server during the practical. Two nodes have been booked for our training session on IFB server. To build your server on these nodes select the following options:

  • Reservation: 2319_ens_0
  • Partition: fast
  • CPU: 1
  • Memory: 2

JupyterHub server options

Start a terminal session

Once your server has been launched, you will be taken to the application launcher page.

JupyterHub launcher

You can click on the "Terminal" tile in order to open a terminal window.

JupyterHub Terminal

Launching an Rstudio environment

In the JupyterHub interface select "New launcher" in the "File" drop-down menu.

JupyterHub new launcher

Click on "Rstudio" to start a new session.

JupyterHub Rstudio start

JupyterHub Rstudio

You can get more information using the IFB-core Cluster documentation.