4 posts tagged with "RenkuLab Update"

Join us in Bern to meet other Renku users and learn how they leverage Renku for data science, research, and teaching. We will share updates about the upcoming new version of Renku, Renku 2.0, and the features prioritised for the second half of 2024. In addition, we will discuss the open Call for Collaborative Projects and describe how you can get involved. You are also invited to voice your challenges in an open discussion about collaborative open research, and to bring your suggestions for new Renku features.

When: June 27th from 13:00 CET until 17:00 CET

Where: University of Bern and Zoom

Register here!

Agenda​

• 13:00-13:15 Welcome and Introduction

• 13:15-14:00 Renku 2.0 Update: Milestones, Demo & Roadmap, Call for collaborative projects

• 14:00-14:15 Break

• 14:15-15:15 Renku in the Wild: User Presentations from Research & Teaching

  • Reproducible Data Acquisition and Processing in X-ray Imaging Research
    Michał Rawlik, Scientist at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering at ETH Zürich

  • How Renku can help us to detect natural hazards: A case study from environmental seismology
    Patrick Paitz, Postdoc at Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)

  • Teaching with Renku: A Co-Evolution
    Noe Leon Thalheim, Tech Lead, "Grundkurs Programmieren" at Berner Fachhochschule (BFH)

  • Renku in astronomy
    Volodymyr Savchenko, Senior Data Scientist & Lecturer at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

• 15:15-15:30 Break

• 15:30-16:30 Open Discussion: Challenges in Collaborative Open Research projects

• 16:30-17:00 Networking and Refreshments

Working with your data in Renku is faster and simpler: you can write and read your data from your external storage services, such as S3, Azure Blob or WebDAV among others.

RenkuLab interactive sessions can access data hosted in a cloud storage system, and the storage is simply mounted as another folder in your session. You can concentrate on developing your code to analyse your data, rather than worrying about moving data around! Plus, when you add a cloud storage to your project, that configuration is available to all project members, so you can share the results with your colleagues or even with the broader community. Who has access is still completely in your control: the access to cloud storage is controlled by the storage provider, not Renku.

To add cloud storage to your Renku project, go to your project's Settings and find the new Cloud Storage tab. Check out Renku documentation for more details on how to configure cloud storage for your project.

If you use SSH sessions via the CLI, you can use cloud storage there too. You just need to configure cloud storage for your project on RenkuLab.io, and those storages will be mounted in your remote session.

Pin your favorite projects to the Dashboard​

Never lose track of important projects again! Pin a project by clicking the new pin icon in the top left corner of the project image. You can pin up to 5 projects, and these will stay at the top of the dashboard, above your recently viewed projects.

New Renku Landing Page​

We are proud to release our completely redesigned landing page! Our new page better describes Renku and its capabilities, and features multiple entry points for getting started with the platform.

New: Pause & Resume Sessions​

On RenkuLab you can now pause sessions and later resume them exactly where you left off. All of your work in progress, including files, data, and environment changes not saved to git, are resumed right as you left them!

The first thing you’ll notice in RenkuLab is that the session stop button has been replaced with a pause button.

Paused sessions will be maintained for 15 days, after which they (and any unsaved work) will be deleted permanently.

You can resume paused sessions from the Dashboard. Not sure if you have any work left un-committed from your last session? The un-saved work indicator on the Dashboard will let you know!