Ubuntu Jupyter

iPython Notebook

An iPython notebook server is running on port 9999 on the ethane server.

To run the notebook server, navigate to the public notebook directory:

cd /www/notebooks 

start screen to run in the background:

screen

and execute the following command to run the notebook with a predefined profile:

# first, create the myserver profile 
# (procedure detailed below)

ipython notebook --profile=myserver 

Then you can close the window and ethane will continue to serve the iPython notebook.

To create the myserver profile: Ubuntu_iPython#Step_5:_Create_iPython_Profile

Setting Up Remote iPython Notebook

Step 1: Install some (apt-get) stuff

$ sudo apt-get install libatlas-dev libpng12-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev g++ libzmq-dev liblapack-dev gfortran python-dev build-essential python-qt4

Step 2: Install some (python) stuff

This can potentially be run from a virtualenv:

$ pip install numpy scipy tornado pyzmq pandas ipython pygments matplotlib

Step 3: Get PyQT4

If you need to get pyqt4 running in a virtualenv, you'll need to run this script as sudo: https://gist.github.com/jlesquembre/2042882

The short version:

$ wget https://raw.github.com/gist/2042882/160eb22a86f9c5a120033b9b05213b2aab8f79f6/postmkvirtualenv
$ chmod +x postmkvirtualenv
$ ./postmkvirtualenv

Step 4: Change Matplotlib backend

Edit this file:

.matplotlib/matplotlibrc

and add this line:

backend: Qt4Agg

Step 5: Create iPython Profile

Create an iPython profile:

$ ipython profile create myserver

and edit this profile's configuration file:

$ vim ~/.ipython/profile_myserver/ipython_notebook_config.py

to add these lines:

c = get_config()

c.IPKernelApp.pylab = 'inline'
c.NotebookApp.ip = '*'
c.NotebookApp.open_browser = False
c.NotebookApp.password = u'sha1:yourhashedpassword'
c.NotebookApp.port = 9999

(note that on Mac, you may run into this issue [1])

Done

Run the server with your profile:

$ ipython notebook --profile=myserver