Quick Start

The first thing to do is to initialize the project like so:

[me@local-pc:~]$ cd <PATH_TO_MY_PROJECT>
[me@local-pc:project]$ remi init

You will be asked to provide:

• Project name: A name for your project (can be anything).
• Inria username: Your Inria login (with which you login to your desktop).
• Inria hostname: The name of your Inria desktop (alya, scorpio, andromeda…)
• Gricad (optional): If you want to use the Gricad cluster with remi.

This process leads to the creation of a folder .remi within your project folder.
It contains a configuration file (config.yaml) and an exclude file (exclude.txt).

Once configured, you are ready to go !

One of the main features of remi is syncing.
More precisely, this tool sends your code on the storage of your workstation (/local_scratch).
This MUST NOT be considered as a kind of ‘backup’.
The only purpose is to copy the code in order to run it. Each time you will push, a one-way synchronization will update the remote copy of your project and delete the remote files that do not exist anymore locally.

I strongly recommend using a versioning tool like git to manage your project as remi does not intent to replace this functionality.

You are not expected to modify the remote copy of your code (this is exactly what remi is for: edit locally, run remotely).

Some folders and files might not be relevant to sync (remi push) on the remote desktop.
You can edit the exclude file (.remi/exclude.txt) and add any regex to ignore files or folders based on regex (as you would do in a .gitignore file).
By default, this file is not empty and contains locations that should not be synced such as output/, .git/, __pycache__/…

Here are some directories that are excluded by default:

• .git
• output/
• notebooks/
• …

This is useful for folders that will be filled on the remote such as output and notebooks. You might then run remi pull <FOLDER> to fetch this remote data back to your local machine.

Recap sceme:

╭----------------╮                              ╭--------------------------------╮
| Local computer |                              | Remote storage (local scratch) |
╰----------------╯                              ╰--------------------------------╯
 my_code/   ╮                                   ╭  my_code/
 folder_a/  |                                   |  folder_a/
 folder_b/  |                                   |  folder_b/
 file_a     |---------- `remi push` ----------->|  file_a
 file_b     |                                   |  file_b
 file_c     |                                   |  file_c
 file_d     ╯                                   ╰  file_d
 output/     <------- `remi pull output/`-------   output/
 notebooks/                                        notebooks/
 ignored_folder/                                   other_ignored_folder/


ignored folders (listed in `.remi/exclude.txt`):
- output/
- notebooks/
- ignored_folder/
- other_ignored_folder/