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1. Open any web browser. 
2. Go to https://notebooks.hpc.uiowa.edu/research-interactive. 
3. Log in using your HawkID and password.
4. You will be asked to authenticate the login with Duo. More information about Duo can be found here.

5. Fill out the "Server Options" form, using the instructions on the form.

   1. Select "Yes" to "Mount HPC Home" only if you have an Argon account. 

      1. If you select "Yes" but you don't have an Argon account, your instance might fail to spawn.

   2. If you have Large Scale Storage (LSS) shares that you want to use with your IDAS instance, enter their paths under "LSS Shared" and "LSS Dedicated". Leave these fields blank otherwise. 

      1. Please check that the share names are correct.

   3. Under "IDAS Image", choose the programming language that you want to use with IDAS. For example, to start an IDAS instance with Julia, please select one of the three options for Julia.
      

6. Click the "Spawn" button. A new instance will be created.
7. After the instance has been created, you will see your IDAS home directory. If this is your first time accessing IDAS and you haven't uploaded any files, your home directory will be empty.

8. More information on using IDAS can be found here. 

9. Once you finish your job with the IDAS instance, please shut down the instance, so that resources could be used by other IDAS users. More information on shutting down an IDAS instance can be found here.

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1. Open any web browser. 
2. Go to https://notebooks.hpc.uiowa.edu/research-interactive. 
3. Log in using your HawkID and password.
4. You will be asked to authenticate the login with Duo. More information about Duo can be found here.

5. Fill out the "Server Options" form, using the instructions on the form.

   1. Select "Yes" to "Mount HPC Home" only if you have an Argon account. 

      1. If you select "Yes" but you don't have an Argon account, your instance might fail to spawn.

   2. If you have Large Scale Storage (LSS) shares that you want to use with your IDAS instance, enter their paths under "LSS Shared" and "LSS Dedicated". Leave these fields blank otherwise. Please  

      1. Please check that the share names are correct.

   3. Under "IDAS Image", choose one of the three options for R.

      

6. Click the "Spawn" button. A new instance will be created.
7. After the instance has been created, you will see your IDAS home directory. If this is your first time accessing IDAS and you haven't uploaded any files, your home directory will be empty.
8. In order to launch RStudio, on the right-hand side, click the "New" button, then select the "RStudio" option.

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