mschecht
1/8/2019 - 1:22 PM

Remote server Jupyter Lab

Use Jupyter Lab on a remote server

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# Credit: http://benjlindsay.com/blog/running-jupyter-lab-remotely/

# Log in to remote server
ssh username@hostname

# Now on remote server via ssh
jupyter lab --no-browser --port=8888

# On local computer:
ssh -Y -N -L localhost:888X:localhost:8888 username@hostname

# Notes!
# 1. Change username@hostname appropriately
# 2. The remote localhost is 8888, make sure these match like the example above
# 3. The "local" localhost is 888x (an be any number between 8880 - 8890)
Current programming workflow - Python
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Python programming setup

  • Desc: This is my current workflow for setting up my Python programming interface with Jupyter lab on a remote server. I will be setting up Jupyter lab on the remote server to be constantly running. After this has been completed once, only step 5-6 are needed to connect my local computer to the running Jupyter lab.

  • Benefits:

    • Now I get to develope locally using the Jupyter Lab interface but run calculations on remotely on the servers :)

  • Credit: http://benjlindsay.com/blog/running-jupyter-lab-remotely/

Steps:

  1. Start computer
  2. Turn on VPN for MPI servers
  3. open two terminals (A, B)
  4. Terminal A:
# connect to server
ssh username@hostname

# go to home directory repos
# example:
cd /bioinf/home/mschecht/post_msc

# Now on remote server via ssh
jupyter lab --no-browser --port=8888
  1. Terminal B:
# On local computer:
ssh -Y -N -L localhost:888X:localhost:8888 username@hostname
  1. Copy link in stdout of step 4 and paste into web browser