These notes aim to document the process of getting access to and using the LSST UK Jupyter pilot service. They are only intended to cover those aspects specific to this service rather than being a general user guide for Jupyter Notebooks.
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The signup system will send you an email that you respond to to complete checkinthe sign-up process. If you do not see it, PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER.
Once you are registered in EGI Check-in please email g.francis@epcc.edemail lasair-help@lists.roe.ac.uk and ask to be added to the UK LSST group.
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Once you are added to the group go to https://jupyter-dev.lsst.ac.uk/
Having read the accceptable use policy, click on the "Sign in with EGI Check-in" button.
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The size options should be fairly self-explanatory. At present these are both guarantees and limits.
A small query will work well on a small server. However, if that query is modified to return a lot of data, the server may JUST STOP DEAD with no explanation! It has run out of memory. The solution is to start a new server which is Large or Xlarge to run the bigger query.
The "standard" and "data science" images are from the public Jupyter docker registry. The ZTF image is based on the standard image, but with a number of additional features described below.
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- mysql-connector-python
- matplotlib
- astropy
- extinction
- mosfit
- astrorapid
- healpy
- wget
If you need to install additional libraries from PyPI you can just use pip. For example to install the package "pip-install-test" you would do:
pip install pip-install-testIf you wanted to make it persist beyond your current session then you would do:
pip install --user pip-install-testIf you think a package should be added to the standard image then please let us know at support@lsst.ac.uk.
JupyterLab Interface
At present the classic Jupyter interface is the default. If you wish to use the JupyterLab interface instead simply replace the /tree at the end of the URL with /lab.
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