PC² JupyterHub
The JupyterHub service is available for Noctua 1 and Noctua 2.
Access
The JupyterHub can be reached at the following address:
Noctua 2: https://jh.pc2.uni-paderborn.de
Noctua 1: https://jh.noctua1.pc2.uni-paderborn.de
The JupyterHub can be accessed via VPN or on-site at the University of Paderborn.
Quick Start
Spawn host/resources | Start |
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Jupyter Session on Noctua 2 | |
Jupyter Session on Noctua 1 | |
Jupyter Notebook on Noctua 2 (Inside Slurm job, 1h runtime, normal partition) | |
Jupyter Notebook on Noctua 2 (Inside Slurm job, 1h runtime, gpu partition) | |
Jupyter Notebook on Noctua 1 (Inside Slurm job, 1h runtime, normal partition) | |
Jupyter Notebook on Noctua 1 (Inside Slurm job, 1h runtime, gpu partition - 1x A40) |
Server Options
Presets
You have the possibility of creating a preset with predefined start options for yourself or your project group.
Click here to list your presets: https://jh.pc2.uni-paderborn.de/services/presets/
Simple
Preset enviroments with predefined values how to start the Jupyter Notebook.
Default and self-created apptainer containers can be used.
Advanced (Slurm)
An advanced view with setting options how a Slurm job should be startet on a cluster.
Loading additional Jupyter kernels
You can load additional Jupyter kernel using Lmod (module). Following kernel are currently available:
If you need new kernel versions or even other programming languages then you are welcome to contact pc2-support!
Apptainer (Singularity) Container
In JupyterHub it is possible to launch Jupyter Notebook instances inside a Singularity container. This has the advantage of being able to use your own built environment. When starting a container, any directories can be mounted inside the container environment.
We provide a set of default Singularity containers:
Container name | Kernels available | Installed software |
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jupyter_scientific_python | Python |
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jupyter_datascience | Julia, Python, R |
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To learn more about Singularity, see here: Singularity-Introduction
If you want to build your own Singularity container for JupyterHub, see here: Create my own Singularity container
Remote Desktop (Graphical Environment via Xpra)
To create a remote desktop environment, you can click on "Desktop Environment" in the JupyterLab interface:
When you click on the tile ‘Xpra Desktop’, a remote desktop environment is set up in the background. Graphical applications (e.g. loaded via modules) can be started from the started graphical terminal.
How-To
Create custom IPython kernel inside custom conda environment
Create a conda environment as described here:
conda activate <your conda env>
conda install ipykernel
ipykernel install --user --name <KERNELNAME> --display-name "<DISPLAY NAME>"
Loading software modules using JupyterLab
To load software modules inside JupyterLab, click on the Lmod extension tab. Then you have the possibility to search, load and unload modules.
If you are using the Classic Notebook View, click on tab "Softwares" to load software modules.
Create my own Singularity container
Installing Jupyter tools
You do not need to install the Jupyter client tools inside your Singularity container.
If the file /opt/conda/bin/jupyterhub-singleuser does not exists inside your container, the JupyterHub binds its own tools inside your container at run time.
If you want to manage your own Jupyter tools/extensions please make sure /opt/conda/bin/jupyterhub-singleuser exists inside your Singularity container.
Using Docker stacks
It is possible to build singularity containers from the official jupyter docker stacks:
https://jupyter-docker-stacks.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Here are more information on how to build a singularity container from DockerHub:
https://sylabs.io/guides/3.7/user-guide/build_a_container.html
Container Location
Your new created container can only be placed in your $HOME
directory: $HOME/.jupyter/pc2-jupyterhub/
Alternatively you can create a link from your $PC2PFS
to your $HOME
directory:
$ ls -l /scratch/pc2-mitarbeiter/mawi/jupyter_container.sif -rw-r--r--. 1 mawi pc2-mitarbeiter 0 Dec 17 07:53 /scratch/pc2-mitarbeiter/mawi/jupyter_container.sif $ ln -s /scratch/pc2-mitarbeiter/mawi/jupyter_container.sif $HOME/.jupyter/pc2-jupyterhub/
All containers with type .sif will be automatically detected in $HOME/.jupyter/pc2-jupyterhub/
Troubleshooting
View Slurm job logs
If the path of the Slurm Job output has not been changed explicity, it can be found here by default:
Noctua 1: $HOME/.jupyter/last_jh_noctua1.log
Noctua 2: $HOME/.jupyter/last_jh_noctua2.log
“Terminals unavailable”
If you have terminado installed in your $HOME
directory (pip3 install --user
), please make sure that the version of terminado is at least 0.8.3.
PC² Support
If you have any other problems that won’t be solved, please contact the pc2-support@uni-paderborn.de