You can request a research use account here: https://workflow.uiowa.edu/form/idas-account. 

Jupyter Notebook for Python, R, and Julia

Once you get access as an IDAS user, here is the process for accessing the system:

1. Open any web browser. 
2. Go to https://notebooks.hpc.uiowa.edu/. 
3. Click the Research Use link at the bottom. 
4. Log in using your HawkID and password.
5. In the Spawner Options page, select an option that best fits your needs. The number of available CPU cores ranges from 2 to 32, while the amount of RAM ranges from 4 GB to 120 GB. You can also select an option with GPU. 
6. Click the Spawn button and it will be spawning a new Jupyter Notebook server. 
7. You will see your home directory on Jupyter, which is initially empty. 

Once you finish your job with the Jupyter Notebook server, it is recommended that you manually stop the server, so that you can quickly release the resources you have been using and get them ready for use by other users. You can stop the server by clicking the Control Panel button at the top right corner and then clicking the Stop My Server button. You will not lose any files by doing so, as long as you save them.

Your session will automatically end after being idle for 18 hours. The session will not end if being active. 

RStudio for R

To start an RStudio instance, please select one of the three options for R under IDAS Image in the Spawner form. 

Doing so will launch an R instance. In order to launch RStudio, click New, then select the RStudio option.


This will launch an RStudio session, which looks very similar to the local version of RStudio.