How Do I Install Julia on JupyterHub?

Step 1: Log onto the Yens

Step 2: Load and Run Julia

Use the following commands:

Terminal Input

module load julia
julia

Step 3: Load IJulia for notebooks

You should now be at an interactive Julia console. Run the following Julia commands:

Julia Console Input

using Pkg
Pkg.add("IJulia")

Step 4: Relaunch JupyterHub

Restart your JupyterHub server, and you should see Julia listed as a notebook kernel.

JupyterHub on the Yen Cluster

Learn more about JupyterHub on the Yens here.

Optional: Multithreaded Julia Kernel

The steps above install Julia kernel that will use a single core on JupyterHub on the Yen cluster.

To run a multithreaded Julia kernel, open the interactive Julia console and execute the following command. Be sure to set the number of threads to a value below the maximum allowed, as outlined in the the User Limits.

Julia Console Input

using IJulia
IJulia.installkernel(
    "julia-mp", 
    env=Dict("JULIA_NUM_THREADS" => "4")
)

Once you launch JupyterHub and the new multithreaded Julia kernel, check that you are using the correct number of threads:

Julia Notebook Cell Input

Threads.nthreads()
4

The output of Threads.nthreads() should be equal to the number of threads you used to create the kernel.