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Notebooks is a browser-based tool for interactive analysis of data using EGI storage and compute services. Notebooks is based on the JupyterHub technology.

Notebooks

Overview

Notebooks is a browser-based tool for interactive analysis of data using EGI storage and compute services. Notebooks is based on the JupyterHub technology and supports multiple programming languages including Julia, Python, R, Octave and MATLAB.
This service can combine text, mathematics, computations and their rich media output using Jupyter technology, and can scale to multiple servers and users with the Cloud Compute service.

Notebooks is offered in two options:
<ul>
<li>Notebooks for researchers: EGI offers a <a href="https://notebooks.egi.eu/">basic instance of the Notebooks</a> as an open service. Any researcher can access to this automatically to write and play notebooks on limited capacity cloud servers.</li>
<li>Notebooks for communities: EGI offers customised Notebooks service to scientific communities. Such customised instances can be hosted on special hardware (for example with fat nodes and GPUs), can offer special libraries, data import/export and user authentication system.</li>
</ul>
TRL 8: System complete and qualified. 
See <a href="https://go.egi.eu/privacy-notice-notebooks">Notebooks privacy policy</a> to learn how personal data are processed when using this service.

Main features

Access the service

You can access the service using a sponsored quota.

Request dedicated instance

Community specific deployment to provide notebooks for all the users of a community. Allows further customisation to meet the community needs (e.g. shared storage).

Request a community notebook

Are you wondering if this service can help solving your challenges? Are you a user and seek support?

Consultancy & Support

With Notebooks, you can address these challenges:

Batch computing

Interactive computing

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How our community uses Notebooks

D4Science

MathWorks is the creator of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab.html">MATLAB</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/products/simulink.html">Simulink</a>, and more than 90 add-on products that engineers and scientists apply to their exploration, design, and development efforts.



MATLAB and Simulink products include techniques and tools for AI and data science, such as machine learning, deep learning, and signal and image processing, and for design and deployment of communications, automotive, robotics, and other research and production software and hardware systems.



MATLAB products are used throughout&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/academia.html">academia</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/academia/research.html">research</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/solutions.html">industry</a>.



<h3 id="h-the-challenge">The challenge</h3>



Researchers using MATLAB often need access to shared datasets too large to download locally.&nbsp; Similarly, they might need access to supercomputers to run their MATLAB programs.



EGI hosts data and has supercomputing resources, but MATLAB users need MATLAB on EGI to take advantage of these resources. In addition, multiple research communities share software toolboxes they develop in MATLAB. EGI could make these tools available on their platforms.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.egi.eu/services/notebooks/">Hosting MATLAB on EGI as part of the Jupyter environment</a>&nbsp;allows MATLAB users to continue developing algorithms and use their code to perform data analysis on the cloud without having to change programming languages or environments. The MATLAB desktop IDE is available via a web-browser using the users’ licenses.



<h3 id="h-egi-mathworks-collaboration">EGI-MathWorks collaboration</h3>



MathWorks and EGI are partnering to offer a web-based version of MATLAB via EGI’s Jupyter environment, making the familiar MATLAB desktop environment accessible via a web browser.



All the standard MATLAB functionality is available via EGI’s hosted MATLAB, including:



<ul><li>Support for several&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/scientific-data.html">scientific</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/data-import-and-export.html?s_tid=CRUX_lftnav">standard data formats</a>, including&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/import_export/download-data-from-web-service.html">web data</a>&nbsp;and those from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/hardware-support/home.html">specialized hardware</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/live-editor.html">Live Editor</a>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/create-live-scripts.html">building computational notebooks explaining workflows and results</a>&nbsp;using&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/live-script-gallery.html">MATLAB Live Scripts</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/app-designer.html">App Designer</a>&nbsp;for creating graphical user interfaces or Apps</li><li><a href="https://www.mathworks.com/products/compiler.html">MATLAB Compiler</a>&nbsp;for building,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/help/compiler/web-apps.html">Web-Apps</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/help/compiler/standalone-applications.html">standalone software</a>&nbsp;for easy sharing.</li><li><a href="https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/">MATLAB File Exchange</a>&nbsp;hosts 40,000&nbsp; shareable MATLAB software tools&nbsp; downloadable for free. GitHub repos can be connected to File Exchange for increased visibility.</li><li><a href="https://www.mathworks.com/solutions/cloud.html">MATLAB in the Cloud</a>&nbsp;allows MATLAB integration with cloud services including support for Docker containers</li></ul>



Users of Campus-, Institute- and Enterprise MATLAB licenses can use their email logins as credentials to access the service. All products and toolboxes covered by a user’s license will be available to that user on the EGI infrastructure.



New to MATLAB?



<ul><li>Learn MATLAB with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/learn/tutorials/matlab-onramp.html">MATLAB Onramp, a free, self-paced online tutorial</a></li><li>Download and try MATLAB on your personal computer with a&nbsp;<a href="https://in.mathworks.com/campaigns/products/trials.html">MATLAB trial</a></li></ul>



<h3 id="h-impact">Impact</h3>



The pilot enables MATLAB users to run MATLAB on EGI infrastructure to analyse and visualize data, develop algorithms, and share research output with others via the Jupyter framework hosted by EGI.



Many universities and research institutions already offer sitewide access to MATLAB, enabling all researchers, educators and students to use MATLAB and Simulink products. By MathWorks enabling EGI visitors to bring their licenses (BYOL) to EGI’s resources, users can use the same MATLAB functionality on EGI as they have access to on their desktops and on institutions’ infrastructure. This makes MATLAB users more effective, avoiding disruptions and gaps in the computing tool chain, enabling them to try out new tools, and providing more research innovation options via tighter connections to EGI’s compute and data.

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This service is co-funded by the European Commission.

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