JASMIN

The JASMIN platform is the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)'s compute service.

The start of JASMIN's documentation is here: https://help.jasmin.ac.uk/category/158-getting-started. There are video instructions.

To access it, you must sign up for an account following the instructions here: https://help.jasmin.ac.uk/article/4435-get-a-jasmin-account

In the 'What will you be using JASMIN for' box, put something along the lines of: Environmental data analysis tasks forming part of my MRes training in the Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Risk (AI4ER, https://ai4er-cdt.esc.cam.ac.uk/) Centre for Doctoral Training hosted at the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey.

Once you've confirmed your email address, you'll be asked for some account details, including an SSH Public Key. If you're not sure about this, see here: https://help.jasmin.ac.uk/article/185-generate-ssh-key-pair . If using MobaXterm on Windows, first choose a persistent home directory in Settings/ Configuration / General for MobaXterm.

Your account so far is just a profile on the accounts portal but has no privileges. If you intend to use JASMIN computing resources you need to apply for the jasmin-login service, which will allow you to connect to JASMIN machines using ssh: https://help.jasmin.ac.uk/article/161-get-login-account. When asked for supporting information provide the same information as when applying for the account. This service allocates you a home area of 100GB, and you can access the login servers using SSH. You can submit jobs to LOTUS using the batch scheduler SLURM. To submit python scripts, this might be useful: http://gws-access.jasmin.ac.uk/public/bas_climate/files/scott/pybsub.py

After you have access to JASMIN, you'll want to request access to a few additional services to access their Jupyter Notebook service. Follow instructions here: https://help.jasmin.ac.uk/article/4851-jasmin-notebook-service

The approval process can take a couple of days.

Once you have a JASMIN account you can apply to access our 10TB Group Work Space (GWS) shared volume here: https://accounts.jasmin.ac.uk/services/group_workspaces/ai4er/