Reference

Further resources

2i2c

• Hub Service Guide – comprehensive documentation for Hub Champions

• Infrastructure Guide – technical guide for 2i2c engineers

• Code of Conduct – expected behavior and guidelines for 2i2c communities

• Technical Support – request technical support

• GitHub Organization – all of 2i2c’s work is open source and there are many insightful discussions found in repository issues

• Slack channel – contact the workshop instructor for access

Managing Software Images

• Guide for Reproducible Research – Containers – guidance on reproducible research environments using containers by The Turing Way

• Reproducible Computational Environments Using Containers: Introduction to Docker – a lesson developed by The Carpentries community

• Red Hat Quay – browse the list of 2i2c-maintained hub images

• Jupyter Docker Stacks – JupyterHub compatible Docker images

• Rocker Project – for R Docker containers (note only the binder image is JupyterHub-compatible)

Glossary

CPU

Central Processing Unit – executes computational work. The number of CPU cores needed for a job depends on how scalable the computational work is, the type and amount of work to be processed.

GitHub Organization

An umbrella account that contains a collection of individual member accounts under one common Organization.

GitHub Team

A subgroup of a GitHub Organization with more fine-grained control over access permissions and notifications.

Hub

In the context of this lesson, a hub is a JupyterHub hosted in the cloud and managed by 2i2c.

JupyterHub

A multi-user hub that spawns, manages and proxies multiple instances of the single-user Jupyter notebook server.

RAM

Random Access Memory – a computer’s “short-term memory”. The amount of RAM needed for a job depends on the size of the data structures to be processed.