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- a NASA identity, or
- a STAR ID.
See How to get access.
Step 1 — Log in
- Open
rp.sciencecloud.nasa.govin your browser. - Sign in. You are sent to the Science Cloud login service (STAR).
- You land on the launch screen.
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The sign-in page. Use your NASA Launchpad or NASA Science Cloud identity.
There is nothing to install.
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Coming later. Two changes to this list are on the roadmap: GPU machines, and letting a project admin build and maintain their own list of server types for their team, instead of everyone choosing from one platform-wide list. |
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The Server Options screen: pick the image, the server type, and the project.
Press start. Your workspace opens in a minute or two.
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| Part of the screen | What it is for |
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| Left sidebar — file browser | Your files |
| Left sidebar — other icons | The platform tools: usage, data browser, AI tools, background jobs |
| Launcher (the big tile page) | Start a notebook, a console, or a terminal — and the Resource Tracker and Collaboration tiles |
| Main area | Your open notebooks |
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JupyterLab. The file browser is on the left; the Launcher tiles are in the middle.
Step 4 — Know where to put your files, and what survives a restart
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- EFS shows you every project you belong to. Open
/efs/and you see a folder for each one. You cannot open other people's folders — the permissions stop you. - The file browser and the terminal show the same files, laid out differently. The left-hand file browser and the command line have the same permissions. Do not worry if the two views look different.
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The same files, two ways: the file browser on the left, a terminal on the right. The user list is blurred on purpose.
Which one should I use?
| Your file | Put it here |
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| My notebooks and scripts | Home folder, ~ |
| Data or a result my team needs | The project folder, /efs/<project> |
| A very large dataset | Object storage |
| A scratch file I do not care about | Anywhere. It will be lost. |
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That is all. The kernel appears in JupyterLab by itself, because the platform watches your environments for you.
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Kernel, then Change Kernel. Your own environment appears in the list.
Use Kernel → Change Kernel in your notebook and pick it.
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The Notebook Intelligence tool puts an AI assistant in JupyterLab.
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The Notebook Intelligence chat panel, open beside the Launcher.
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Example — explain code. You open a colleague's notebook and do not understand a cell. Select the cell, ask the assistant to explain it, and read the answer next to the code. |
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