Remote access ipython notebooks

Original post: https://coderwall.com/p/ohk6cg/remote-access-to-ipython-notebooks-via-ssh

remote$ipython notebook --no-browser --port=8889

local$ssh -N -f -L localhost:8888:localhost:8889 remote_user@remote_host

To close the SSH tunnel on the local machine, look for the process and kill it manually:

local_user@local_host$ ps aux | grep localhost:8889
local_user 18418  0.0  0.0  41488   684 ?        Ss   17:27   0:00 ssh -N -f -L localhost:8888:localhost:8889 remote_user@remote_host
local_user 18424  0.0  0.0  11572   932 pts/6    S+   17:27   0:00 grep localhost:8889

local_user@local_host$ kill -15 18418

Alternatively, you can start the tunnel without the -f option. The process will then remain in the foreground and can be killed with ctrl-c.

On the remote machine, kill the IPython server with ctrl-c ctrl-c.

Note: If you are running GPU & Theano on your remote machine, you can launch the notebook by:

THEANO_FLAGS=mode=FAST_RUN,device=gpu,floatX=float32 ipython notebook –no-browser –port=8889

Another simple way is to do the following (adding ip=*):

# In the remote server

$ THEANO_FLAGS=mode=FAST_RUN,device=gpu,floatX=float32 ipython notebook –no-browser –ip=* –port=7777

then you can reach the notebook from http:// the-ip-address-of-your-remote-server:7777/