Quickstart

From a fresh workspace to a running notebook in under five minutes.

1. Open Workbench — From the Vantage top nav, 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 profile (or accept the default) — Visit Compute Profiles to see what's available. The default profile is fine for most starter notebooks; bigger profiles (multi-GPU, A100/H100 nodes) require quota.
3. Create a session — On the Sessions tab, click New session. Pick a name, an image (Jupyter / VS Code / RStudio), the compute profile, and storage. 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. Stop it when you're done — Idle GPUs are billed. Stop the session from the row's overflow menu — your storage stays attached for next time.

tip

Storage persists across sessions. Stopping a session releases compute but keeps your home volume and any data volumes you mounted. Starting a session with the same name reattaches them.