[IPython-dev] Jupyter Server Project Startup

[Doug Blank]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:22 AM, <John.Holt at tessella.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am just starting a project to deploy the IPython Notebook deployed for
> multiple user access on a virtual cloud. I am writing in the hope that the
> community can advise me on any issues I am going to face getting this up
> and running. I am particularly interested in the following:
>
>   1) It looks like Jupyter Hub is a good choice for this system. I am
> aware that is is still in development but have seen some people using it.
> How stable is it?
>

It is fairly stable. I have a class of students using it daily. I don't
update the codebase (ipython and jupyterhub) but once every few weeks:

* things can still break in development
* there have been some needed bug fixes along the way
* the ipython group has been very responsive to keeping master working
* it may require you to track down issues and report them (time consuming)
* if it is a public-facing server, then it requires sys-admin-level support
(account management, security updates, etc)


>   2) Has anyone used IPython parallel within JupyterHub? This is a key
> requirement of my project. I created a sandbox which runs this and although
> I can use a pre-setup cluster from my notebook, I can not start a new
> cluster within the notebook.
>

Yes, I am not using that for the class, but we have been developing
3rd-party kernels that utilize the cluster [1]. Everything works as
advertised, although we are just running the cluster as regular processes
in the system---nothing fancy (no MPI, remote nodes, etc).


>   3) Any other thoughts, tips, tricks or pitfalls I should avoid?
>

I recommend starting simply, and adding additional variations one at a
time. As this is new code, there are many combinations that have not been
tested, and thus you may find bugs.

Hope that helps!

-Doug

[1] - https://github.com/blink1073/metakernel


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>
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