Get Started

You can start to use ARIM-mdx by following these steps:

1. Getting and Activating Personal Account

2. Getting 30TB Group Folder

3. Jupyter Initial Setup

Note

This process takes 10-15 minutes in total.

A. Getting and Activating Personal Account

A-1. Getting Your Account

You will get your accounts and initial passwords depending on the user type:

(i) For ARIM Facility Users

1-1. Get the account and initial password issued by your ARIM facility.

(ii) For General Users

1-1. Submit your project’s application through this Application Form (Japanese).

1-2. Get the account and initial password issued by the ARIM-mdx administrator after the application.

Note

If you are already registered for another project, continue to B. Getting 30TB Group Folder using your own account (email address).

A-2. Change Your Initial Password

2-1. Access https://arim.mdx.jp/nextcloud.

2-2. Log in with your account and initial password.

2-3. Renew your password.

2-4. Register your information.

A-3. Email Verification

3-1. Check the verification email sent to your registered email address.

3-2. Click the link in the email to verify.

3-3. Check to visit https://arim.mdx.jp/nextcloud.

Note

After verification, you can log in using either your ID or email address.

Warning

Some email addresses may not receive the verification email due to spam filtering. In such cases, please contact the system administrator or password issuer.

B. Getting 30TB Group Folder

Follow these steps to activate your group’s 30TB shared folder.

Note

The following steps should be performed by the group representative.

B-1. Getting Group Management URL

Get your Group Management Private URL that was provided with your personal account. If you cannot find it, contact your account issuer or ARIM-mdx’s administrator.

Warning

Keep this URL confidential and secure. Anyone who has this URL can access group management settings. If you suspect unauthorized access or URL disclosure, immediately contact ARIM-mdx’s system administrator.

B-2. Logging into Group Management

2-1. Access your Group Management URL and log in with your account.

2-2. Enter ARIM-mdx User Group Management. Registered accounts in this group will be displayed.

B-3. Adding Group Users

3-1. Enter the user’s account (email address) you want to register in Enter email and click ADD.

Note

The registered email address can be found at https://arim.mdx.jp/nextcloud via top-right icon > View Profile

3-2. The user is registered, and the shared folder becomes available

B-4. Confirming in Nextcloud

4-1. From https://arim.mdx.jp/nextcloud, log out first, then log in again.

4-2. After logging in, the added Group folder (e.g., 24UT0000) appears in the ⌂ / large folder.

B-5. (Optional) Removing Users

5-1. Click Delete for the user you want to remove.

5-2. Reload your browser. The deleted user disappeared.

C. Jupyter Initial Setup

Follow these steps to integrate Nextcloud with Jupyter.

C-1. Logging into Jupyter

Log in to ARIM-mdx Jupyter service (https://jupyter.arim.mdx.jp).

C-2. Starting Jupyter Server

Select a server and click Start to launch (any spec type is fine).

Note

Starting Jupyter may take up to several minutes.

C-3. Running README.ipynb

3-1. After startup, open and run the README.ipynb file in the folder (click the ▶︎ button).

3-2. When you run the second line, you’ll be redirected to ARIM-mdx Nextcloud to authorize the account integration.

3-3. After ARIM-mdx Nextcloud access authentication is complete, return to Jupyter and continue running README.ipynb. After running all lines, a new arim-mdx folder will be created.

3-4. Initial setup is complete when the arim-mdx folder synchronizes with your ARIM-mdx Nextcloud home folder, and you can access large/24UTXXXXX etc. For subsequent logins, it will automatically connect with ARIM-mdx Nextcloud.