Virtual Environments

A virtual environment is a networked application that allows a Colby user to interact with both the computing environment and the work of others. Here are virtual environments available at Colby:

• RStudio rstudio.colby.edu or a specific course, eg. https://bi345.colby.edu
• Apporto https://colby.apporto.com is used in selected courses for specific licensed software, such as Quartus, MATLAB, ARCGIS, SPSS, Stata, Adobe Creaive Suite, EViews and others.
• Jupyter jupyter.colby.edu is a local server in our private cloud that is primarily used for python. As compute demand increases it is handled by nscc.colby.edu, our HPC cluster. This server has direct access to students’ personal directories and course folders, eg. cs253.jupyter.colby.edu. NOTE: jupyterhub clusters are located at Google. They will have limited compute capability and not be directly integrated with course or personal folders on filer.colby.edu. They will be able to scale up rapidly with Google compute nodes that can handle 4 concurrent users as needed. Students will have 10gig of storage, but no direct integration with Google Drive, so they will need to save their work for submission 
• Sage sage.colby.edu is a local server used exclusively for the sage language with a jupyter notebook interface
• Git Hub git.colby.edu is a repository for code, its advantage is that students and faculty can share code and show its history
• Nutanix is the hardware/software provider for our local private cloud