SciServer Compute

SciServer Compute provides Jupyter notebooks in Python or R, and has a SAS Data Volume that can be mounted for access to all SDSS data products.

To create a SciServer account, follow these steps:

  1. Go to www.sciserver.org and click on “Login to SciServer”
  2. Click the “Create a new account” link
  3. Enter a username, a working email address, and a strong password, then agree to the policies and click “Create account”
  4. Check your email and click on the confirmation link
  5. Return to SciServer (you should be automatically logged in), where you will see the SciServer Dashboard

Create a SciServer container for your notebooks:

  1. From the SciServer Dashboard, click on Compute in the second row of icons to open SciServer Compute in a new tab
  2. Click on “Create container” to reserve processing and storage for your work; a new focus window will come up with create container options
  3. Give your container a name, and mount the SDSS SAS Data Volume by clicking its checkbox, then click the Create button
  4. Click on the name of your newly-created container to open it in a new tab.

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