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

William Stein wstein at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 17:20:18 EDT 2015


On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Signell, Richard <rsignell at usgs.gov> wrote:
> 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

Does Python 2 versus Python 3 matter?

Also, if you've tried Jupyter in https://cloud.sagemath.com, would it
be sufficient to meet your needs if it had the above packages
installed for all projects?

Also, how powerful of computing facilities would be required?

>
> 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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>>> Dr. Richard P. Signell   (508) 457-2229
>>> USGS, 384 Woods Hole Rd.
>>> Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598
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>>
>>
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