Binder (https://mybinder.org) provides a short-lived, temporary Linux cloud environment where Jupyter notebooks can be run without having to install any software locally.
Click on this button to launch an environment pointing to the current main branch of this repository:
A Binder environment is destroyed automatically after a few minutes of inactivity, which means that any unsaved progress will be lost. To avoid this, users should download a copy of a notebook file from the Binder environment to their local machine through the browser (in the Jupyter Lab file browser menu, right click on the notebook file > Download). For more information, see https://mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about/about.html#how-long-will-my-binder-session-last.
The mybinder.org service is an independent (i.e. unaffiliated with this project), general-purpose computational platform that is made available free-of-charge to the public. In our experience it has generally good uptime, however outages (planned or otherwise) will occur occasionaly.
Refer to the Status page and the additional resources listed there to access the most up-to-date information about the status of the service.
Binder uses a Git repository hosted on e.g. GitHub to fetch the notebooks and create the runtime environment. Users can specify a specific fork, branch, and Git ref (e.g. a particular commit hash), as well as the path to a particular directory or notebook file within the repository, that will be used when first starting the environment.
These options can be specified interactively on Binder's homepage, which will create a URL that can then be shared with others to generate a (separate) instance of the environment with the same repository settings.
Alternatively, the URL can be generated manually according to the following schema:
https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/<github-org-or-user-name>/<github-repo-name>/<git-ref>?labpath=<path-to-notebook>Example: for a branch named mybranch belonging to myuser's fork of this repository, pointing to the dispatches/models/renewables_case/ConceptualDesignOptimization.ipynb notebook file:
https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/myuser/dispatches/mybranch?labpath=dispatches/models/renewables_case/ConceptualDesignOptimization.ipynb