Quickstart

1. Open Workbench — From the left sidebar, click Workbench. The secondary sidebar lists every tool in this guide. The status pill in the upper-left of that sidebar shows your active cluster — switch clusters there if your team works across regions.
2. Pick a compute pool (or accept the default) — Visit Pools to see what's available. The default pool is fine for most starter notebooks; bigger pools (multi-GPU, A100/H100 nodes) require quota.
3. Create a session — On the Sessions tab, click New session. Pick a preset (Jupyter, VS Code, or RStudio), choose an image and pod size, configure storage, and submit.
4. Open it — When status flips from Pending to Running, click the row's Open button to launch the notebook in a new tab.
5. Pause it when you're done — Idle GPUs are billed. Pause the session from the row's overflow menu — your storage stays attached for next time.

tip

Storage persists across pause/resume cycles. Pausing a session releases compute but keeps your home volume and any data volumes you mounted. Resuming the session reattaches them automatically.