This space serves as a knowledge base for jupyterhub.wwu.de, a platform for interactive data analysis provided by the University of Münster.
If you have further questions regarding JupyterHub, please join us on Mattermost: mattermost.uni-muenster.de/wwu/channels/jupyterhub.
Availability
The Jupyterhub is available for every member of the university, including employees and students. The resource quotas depend on their status and respective user groups. Higher resource quotas up to 16vCPUs and 64GB of RAM and additional GPUs can be requested via email jupyterhub@uni-muenster.de.
We offer two different configurations:
- eScience: Mainly for natural science and data analysis
- Development: Mainly for programming, e.g. C++, Rust
Install own software
Although many important packages are preinstalled into the images, you can install additional packages by yourself.
If you want to add python packages, you have two options:
- Pip: Within a python notebook you can execute
!pip install package_nameto install the package package_name - Conda: Since most packages are installed in read-only folders, you have to create a new environment (see below)
Additionally, you can download and execute any file with user privileges using the terminal. With the X11 terminal (Konsole), you can also access GUI applications.
Create new conda environment as a kernel to Jupyterhub
Prerequisites:
To install new packages you have to initialize your shell. To do so, open the terminal and execute:
conda init
bash
Installation
To create a new environment with Python 3.11 and the package pandas under the name py311:
conda create --name py311 python=3.11 ipykernel pandas # ipykernel is required for jupyterhub
conda activate py311
python -m ipykernel install --user --name py311 --display-name "Python (py311)"
After a reload of the page, you should be able to select your new eniroment as a kernel.
Storage
Your personal home folder ~ is also available under \\wwu.de\ddfs\Cloud\wwu1\u_jupyterhub\home within the university network. It can be access via the file explorer in Windows or mounted in unix systems.
Cloud storage is mounted at /cloud/wwu1. You can create a symlink to your project folder in your home directory by executing ln -s /cloud/wwu1/my_cloud_folder ~ . This allows you to use the file browser on the left hand site to access the data.
Contribution
All employees of the WWU are welcome to contribute to this knowledge base and can request write access for confluence by contacting Christian Schild (Mattermost: @schild oder E-Mail: schild@uni-muenster.de).