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Hello Unidata community, Can your course or program benefit from no-cost access to a cloud-based Jupyter notebook server for the remainder of the Spring term? Read on. As many universities transition to the use of remote/online learning strategies in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Unidata is making additional resources available via its Science Gateway project. On request, we can set up a JupyterHub environment to provide student access to online Jupyter notebooks in support of college-level coursework in the atmospheric and related sciences. You can read more about the program in this post from the News@Unidata blog: Offer: Unidata Science Gateway JupyterHub Resources Available for Remote-Learning Situations <https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/entry/offer-unidata-science-gateway-jupyterhub> Unidata's Science Gateway is a collection of cloud-based resources running in the National Science Foundation's Jetstream cloud environment. JupyterHub servers running as part of the Gateway can make a customized Python environment, along with collections of Jupyter notebooks, available to specific groups (e.g. students enrolled in a particular course) via a web browser. Students do not need to install any software on their own computers. And because computation takes place in the cloud environment rather than locally, students with almost any computer that can connect to the internet can use these resources. Unidata makes resources on the Science Gateway available to community members in support of their education and research activities. Until very recently, the JupyterHub servers have been in a testing phase. In the past year, they have been used successfully by full-semester courses and multi-day workshops. At the AMS 2020 Annual Meeting in January, the system supported a Student Conference Python workshop during which roughly 140 attendees used JupyterHub resources at the same time. We are confident that the system will scale to meet the needs of multiple classroom groups. If you think your Spring term course could benefit from access to a JupyterHub server on the Unidata Science Gateway, please read through the details in the above-linked article. Contact support-gateway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx if you have additional questions or to request a JupyterHub for your course. Unidata Program Center staff are all working remotely as of now, but we should be able to respond to requests in a reasonable time frame. Best wishes for good health, The Unidata Program Center staff -- Douglas Dirks Unidata Community Services ddirks@xxxxxxxx <ddirks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * 303-497-8657
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