The Melbourne Research Cloud (MRC) offers free on-demand computing resources to researchers at the University of Melbourne (and affiliated institutions). In short, whenever your own personal computer isn't up to the job, the Melbourne Research Cloud might be the solution.
ARDC set up step by step (from previous UniMelb MSc jemma pilossof): https://docs.google.com/document/d/19z9bWzwnWxVwQQuR88kHPTxQKZTMhDafCnqA2l0SZwM/edit?usp=sharing
https://tutorials.rc.nectar.org.au/cloud-starter/02-tutorials
If you need to access the campus network away from uni – for example, to SSH into a local computer or use the printers – you can use the campus virtual private network (VPN) free of charge. You can find more information on this on university VPN info page: https://studentit.unimelb.edu.au/wireless-vpn/vpn . This involves installing a client called Cisco, following the prompts, and simply logging in with your student details.
See: https://uomservicehub.service-now.com/esc?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0202899
The University of Melbourne's wireless network for on-campus use is UniWireless.
Note: A University of Melbourne username and password are required to connect to the UniWireless network.
Information on how to connect can be found here:
https://wireless.unimelb.edu.au/uniwireless.html
On the linux machines the printer should show up in the pre-populated list as "UOM140230" under settings --> printers.
System Preferences -->Printers and scanners. Press the + button to add a new printer.
Click on Advanced (NOTE: If Advanced icon is not visible, right click on the grey area on top and select "Customise Toolbar" and drag and drop Advanced button to the main menu.)
Select or enter the following into the Add dialogue box
Type: Windows printer via spools
URL: smb://uniprint.unimelb.edu.au/UOM140230
Name: Third floor printer [or whatever name you want]
Use: Select Printer Software
Search and select the device driver; "FX Print Driver for Mac OXS V*" where * is the version number. [If you don't have driver go here: https://support-fb.fujifilm.com//setupDriverForm.do?ctry_code=AU&lang_code=en&d_lang=en&pid=DPCM405DF]
Click OK
Click Add.
For authentication, use my standard login STUDENT\username + password or UNIMELB\username + password works.
Upload document to: https://papercut.unimelb.edu.au/user (note you have to use your staff id)
https://uomservicehub.service-now.com/esc?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0207792
Note that the below is from Giovanni!
The following code goes in the .zshrc (or .bashrc file) on your local machine:
# >>> Connect to ozstar >>> Remember to change username!
# Note that you can set up a ssh key authentication to avoid typing the password every time
alias ozstar="ssh YOUR_USERNAME@tooarrana2.hpc.swin.edu.au"
# >>> Jupyter-lab settings >>>
function jllocal {
port=1200
remote_username=username
remote_hostname=tooarrana2.hpc.swin.edu.au
url="http://localhost:$port"
echo "Opening $url"
#xdg-open "$url"
open -a "Google Chrome" $url
cmd="ssh -CNL localhost:"$port":localhost:"$port" $remote_username@$remote_hostname"
echo "Running '$cmd'"
eval "$cmd"
}
# <<< Jupyter-lab settings <<<
#Note: One could use remote_hostname=ozstar.swin.edu.au, but this choice should go around the default session splitting between tooarrana1 and tooarrana2
#And this alias goes on your .zshrc/.bashrc script on the server:
alias jlremote="jupyter-lab --no-browser --port=1200"
To execute:
Open a tmux window on the server, go in your favourite conda env and run jlremote
Then go on your local terminal and run jllocal
(Server admin do not particularly like that we use tmux, so use this to run only SMALL jobs!)