Atmosphere

A cloud-based resource offering customizable virtual machine images for specific learning or analysis goals.

Atmosphere, CyVerse's cloud-computing platform, allows you to launch your own isolated virtual machine (VM) image and software, using compute resources such as CyVerse-provided software suites, and preconfigured, frequently used analysis routines, relevant algorithms, and datasets.

Educators can use Atmosphere to provide students or a class with identical, ready-to-use, virtual ‘sandboxes’ customized for specific learning goals. Atmosphere’s VMs can also save researchers the often time-consuming and frustrating job of ensuring consistent parameters for software—you can load a VM once with your favorite tools and your datasets for reproducible science with every launch.

To use Atmosphere, you must have an educational email address, a CyVerse account and be granted access to Atmosphere.

Important Note: Starting July 1, 2020, access to Atmosphere will change as CyVerse shifts the platform from a general computing environment to one focused on container and cloud native development services for U.S.-based researchers. Please read these FAQs for more information.