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Get started with Intel® Tiber™ AI Cloud. Sign up. Sign in. Launch.

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Overview

  1. Visit the Intel® Tiber™ AI Cloud Console.

  2. Choose Create an Account or Sign in.

    Create an account with your email address. This becomes the account ID.

    1. Click Create an Account.

    2. Follow instructions in the dialog and complete required fields.

    3. Sign in with the email address you used to register your account.

  3. Choose a workflow:

    • Launch Learning - Complete a few steps to launch a node in the SLURM cluster.

    • Launch Instance - Complete all required steps to launch a hardware instance.

Launch Learning

Quickly launch a learning node in the SLURM cluster.

Note

No SSH key is required.

  1. Visit the Intel® Tiber™ AI Cloud Console.

  2. In the menu at left, click Learning.

  3. Click Launch to open a learning notebook.

    Note

    You may also click Learn more to view a learning module overview.

  4. After choosing a Learning module, choose an option:

    1. Click Launch to run any Jupyter Notebook.

    2. Click Launch JupyterLab and follow the next step.

  5. Consider viewing related documents.

Cloud Credits and Coupons

  1. Select the User Profile pull-down menu.

  2. Select Cloud credits.

  3. Cloud Credits details will appear.

Redeem Coupon

To obtain cloud credits in your account:

  1. Follow step one of previous section.

  2. Click on Redeem coupon.

  3. Enter a coupon code.

  4. After the coupon is validated, Cloud Credits shows cloud credits details.

Tip

Due to latency, the code may require a few minutes to appear.

Launch Instance

Configure your account to launch an instance from the hardware catalog.

Note

Uploading an SSH key is required.

Set Up SSH Keys

Configuring SSH keys requires two steps. First, create an SSH key locally. Second, upload it to your account. Setting up an SSH Key is a one-time task.

Warning

Never share your private keys with anyone. Never create a SSH Private key without a passphrase.

Create an SSH Key

Launch a Terminal on your system to generate an SSH Key. For MacOS* systems, follow the Linux OS instructions.

Click the tab for your operating system (OS).

  1. Launch a Terminal on your local system.

  2. To generate an SSH key, copy and paste the following to your Terminal.

    ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa

  3. If you’re prompted to overwrite, select No.

  4. Click the copy icon. Then paste this command in your Terminal to show the generated SSH key.

    cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

  5. Continue below.

Upload an SSH Key

  1. In the Intel® Tiber™ AI Cloud, click on Compute > Keys.

  2. In the Keys tab, click Upload.

  3. Enter a name for your key in Key name.

  4. Paste the contents of your SSH key in Key contents.

  5. Select Upload.

  6. Verify that your SSH key appears in the table.

Launch a compute instance

  1. Log in to Intel® Tiber™ AI Cloud.

  2. In the left side menu, click Catalog > Hardware.

  3. In the Hardware tab, select an instance from the options.

Configure an instance

Select options from pull-down menus to configure your instance.

  1. From Instance family, select your choice.

  2. From Instance Type, select your choice.

    Note

    Optionally, select Compare instance types to compare instances’ specifications.

  3. From Machine image, select your choice.

  4. In Instance name, enter a name in lowercase. Optional: Use hyphens.

  5. Under Public Keys, select checkbox for SSH public keys added previously.

  6. Optional: One-Click connection. Select the radio button to enable single-click access for future use.

    Note

    Currently, One-Click connection is only available in selected regions.

    Selecting One-Click connection is only performed once. You cannot add or remove this functionality after you launch an instance.

  7. Click Launch.

  8. Continue in next section.

Next Steps

Continue at Tutorials.

Optional Steps

Access via Corporate Network

If you’re connecting to Intel® Tiber™ AI Cloud from your company Corporate Network, you’ll need to update SSH config file.

Note

If you connect using PowerShell on Microsoft Windows Operating System, you must install gitforwindows.

  1. SSH Configuration is an one-time task.

  2. Your SSH configuration file is in a folder named .ssh under your user’s home folder. If the file is not present, create one.

  3. Copy and paste the following to SSH config file:

    ~/.ssh/config

    Host 146.152.*.*
ProxyCommand /usr/bin/nc -x PROXYSERVER:PROXYSPORT %h %p

  4. From your Lab Administrator, get PROXYSERVER and PROXYPORT in your Corporate Network for SSH, NOT for HTTP/HTTPS Proxy.

  5. Replace PROXYSERVER and PROXYPORT with the information you received from your lab administrator and save the SSH Config file.