Welcome to the Research Platform. This guide is designed to get you up and running as quickly as possible by walking through a typical first day on the system—from launching your first machine to securely saving your work and shutting down.

Before You Start

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Quick

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Summary

While the full document below provides comprehensive instructions and explanations, here is a quick start guide to get you up and running The rest of this page walks through your first day on the platform step-by-step. If you just want the essentials, here is the one-minute version to get you moving immediately.

1. Go to rp.sciencecloud.nasa.gov and log in.
2. Pick a machine size. Start it.
3. Keep files in ~, in /efs/<project>, or in object storage. Everything else is lost on restart.
4. Work in a notebook. Ask the AI assistant when you are stuck. Need your own packages? Build a conda environment in ~/envs and register it as a kernel.
5. Big job? Dask for parallel work, NBQueue for long background runs.
6. Same file as a colleague? Use the collaboration tile.
7. Check the usage panel.
8. Stop everything when you finish.

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