[IPython-dev] Options for cloud-based Jupyterhub for Python training?

Signell, Richard rsignell at usgs.gov
Wed Apr 22 17:14:34 EDT 2015


William,

I mean a python environment with these packages installed from our
binstar channel (http://conda.binstar.org):

iris
mpld3
pyoos
pandas
folium
rdflib
geojson
requests
ipython-notebook
xlrd
mplleaflet
oceans
qrcode
utilities

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:09 PM, William Stein <wstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Signell, Richard <rsignell at usgs.gov> wrote:
>> Jupyterhub folks,
>>
>> We are looking for solutions for one week of Python training for about
>> 50 met-ocean students at the NSF-funded Unidata Program Center in
>> Boulder (in June).  And we are thinking Jupyterhub on the cloud.
>>
>> We know that Software Carpentry favors students to install on their
>> own laptops, but we are leaning toward a cloud solution to demonstrate
>> the advantages of computing close to large met-ocean datasets.  And we
>> could also set up a common environment with packages used in the
>> met-ocean community (e.g. http://conda.binstar.org/ioos).
>>
>> We read this article
>> https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/deploying-jupyterhub-for-education/
>> which is similar to what we would like to set up, but the setup
>> sounded rather harrowing.
>>
>> Are there other solutions that would take less setup, yet allow us a
>> multi-user notebook login with cloud resources with a shared custom
>> env?
>
> Could you elaborate on what you mean by "a shared custom environment".
> https://cloud.sagemath.com, which I run, is zero setup, and can easily
> handle the load of 50 people (we often have 600-700 simultaneous
> users).   However, there's no notion of shared custom environment, so
> it might not work at all for you.
>
>  -- William
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rich
>>
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>> USGS, 384 Woods Hole Rd.
>> Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598
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