What to do if the notebook is not working

This WILL happen to everyone at least once, probably many times. You attempt to open your web browser to http://localhost/<my_port_#> and you see the dreaded:

First, DO NOT PANIC!. Randomly clicking stuff is not going to fix the problem.

Close down everything that’s running

On your laptop (Windows)

It’s easy, just close ALL putty windows.

On your laptop (Mac)

List all the running ssh tunnels

ps -ef | grep ssh

work1     7389     1  0 May16 ?        00:00:00 ssh -N -f -L 9001:node215:9001 work1@habanero

Kill anything that looks like this ssh -N -f -L, using the process id, which is the number in the 2nd column:

kill 7389

On the HPC

List all your running cluster jobs

squeue -u work1

JOBID PARTITION     NAME     USER ST       TIME  NODES NODELIST(REASON)
8389553      edu1 jupyter.    work2  R    2:37:12      1 node162

Kill everything running using scancel and the JOBID (first column):

scancel 8389553

Restart everything

On the HPC

Open a terminal connection to the cluster and make sure your notebook server is actually running. Start the jupyter notebook:

sbatch ~/job-scripts/jupyter.sh

Figure out what compute node it’s running on:

squeue -u work1

JOBID PARTITION     NAME     USER ST       TIME  NODES NODELIST(REASON)
8389553      edu1 jupyter.    work2  R    2:37:12      1 node162

On your laptop (Windows)

Start a new ssh tunnel using the Windows

On your laptopt (Mac)

mac/linux directions.

4) In a browser open a new tab and navigate to http://localhost:<my_port_#>

5) If it still doesn’t work, ask for help.