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Overview

Each group could be assigned a given VirtualMachine (VM) on the PhysicsOfData-students project on CloudVeneto. VM are named LCP-Y2-GrN and the assignation to the group GroupN is obvious, (e.g. LCP-Y2-Gr9 is assigned to Group9)

Usage of the CloudVeneto computing resources is NOT mandatory, but if those resources will be exploited to accomplish the final project, ALL members of the group must have an account on CloudVeneto.

CloudVeneto provide a powerful dashboard, which can be used to monitor the usage of resource and to take actions on them. You'll have to access that in order to check the IP of the VM you've been assigned to. It is tough highly recommended NOT to take any action unless absolutely justified. Examples of actions are soft- or hard- reboot of the VM. In any case you are requested to ask for authorisation before any action

On the other hand you are the unique responsible for the VM you get assigned to, in particular you'll have the super-user (root) privileges with all the consequent super-powers. Any super-user action should be executed upon your judgment only. This includes creation of accounts, installation of software, and so on.

To access a VM users need first to pass through the gate (via ssh as explained in the account registration email)

Account(s) creation

  1. Once logged onto gate.couldveneto.it, log onto your assigned VM as super-user (root):
ssh root@IP_VM

where IP_VM is the IP of the VM you are assigned to

the root password will be provided upon request by prof. Zanetti.

  1. Once logged onto the VM setup the accounts:
adduser USERNAME

passwd USERNAME

where USERNAME must be your own USERNAME on the cloud. With the second command, you set the password for that account, which doesn't need to be the same of your account on the could (actually, better not).

You can create as many accounts as the members of the group, that's your choice, as well as how to organise the team-work on the VM. Creation of an "ad-hoc" account could be an option, even though that would not be liked by the could system administrators..

Remote usage of Jupyter

It is possible to run Juptyer's kernel on the VM and act on the notebook(s) from your computer's browser. This requires opening a (double) tunnel:

ssh -t -L PORT:localhost:PORT  USERNAME@gate.cloudveneto.it ssh -L PORT:localhost:PORT USERNAME@IP_VM

where PORT is generic port (e.g. 1234), USERNAME is an account on the cloud (and on the VM, i.e. you had to create it on the VM previously, as explained above) and IP_VM is the IP of the VM you are assigned to.

That command will have you logged onto your VM. At that point you need to go to your working directory and launch Jupyter in the following way:

jupyter notebook --ip 127.0.0.1 --port PORT --no-browser --allow-root

Now you just need to setup your browser appropriately, for instance on firefox (explanations continue after the picture ):

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Now cut&paste the URL that appears when you launched jupyter, e.g. ```http://localhost:8888/?token=67c026e15b1e1a9be1459307493907d302b386aa7c123e86