Workspace

Overview of Workspaces on BioData Catalyst Powered by Gen3

When navigating to a Workspace, users are presented with multiple workspace options.

Gen3 BioData Catalyst Workspace Page

The Gen3 platform offers two workspace environments: Jupyter Notebooks and R Studio.

There are six workspaces:

Virtual machines (VM):

• Small Jupyter Notebook VM

• Large Jupyter Notebook Power VM

• R Studio VM

Pre-made workflow workspaces:

• Autoencoder Demo

• CIP Demo

• Tensorflow-Pytorch.

To start a workspace, select Launch. You will see the following launch loading screen.

Launch loading screen

Launching a VM can take up to five minutes depending on the size and complexity of the workspace.

Once the VM is ready, the initial screen for the workspace will appear. For scripts and output that need to be saved when the workspace is terminated, store those files in the pd/ directory.

The initial workspace for Jupyter Notebooks

The initial workspace for R Studio

This workspace will persist once the user has logged out of the Gen3 BioData Catalyst system. If the workspace is no longer being used, terminate the workspace by selecting Terminate Workspace at the bottom of the window. You will be returned to the Workspace page with all of the workspace options.

For more information about the Gen3 Workspace, refer to Data Analysis in a Gen3 Data Commons.