CryoLauncher Resources#
CryoLauncher Resources
A launchpad for the CryoLauncher documentation, supported models, execution environments, containers, datasets, source code, and support.
Documentation#
Getting Started
Configure and run your first ice-sheet simulation, then inspect the structured results.
Open Getting Started →User Manual
The full operational guide: Basic, Advanced, and Auto-config · Beta, My Workspace, datasets, Remote and Cloud execution, runs, results, visualization, and downloads.
Open User Manual →CryoStack Documentation
How CryoLauncher fits into the wider CryoStack platform.
Open Documentation →Supported models#
ISSM Supported
The Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model — Remote and Cloud, with solver-aware Basic configuration, structured results, and Solution / Field / Timestep visualization. Needs a MATLAB license.
Icepack Supported
A Python library built on Firedrake — Remote and Cloud, with Basic-mode ice temperature and timestep count, structured results, and field maps of the final state. No MATLAB license needed.
Examples#
ISSM examples
CryoLauncher discovers the examples installed with ISSM. Application
examples are read-only; SquareIceShelf is the recommended
first run. Clone any example into My Workspace to edit it.
ISSM example suite
The upstream ISSM tutorials and example models that the installed examples are drawn from.
ISSM tutorials →Execution environments#
Remote Supported
Run on a Linux server or HPC cluster you have access to, through the CryoStack Connector (recommended) or direct SSH, with Slurm settings for scheduler-managed systems.
Execution guide →Configure HPC access
Connect with your own HPC username, allocation, remote directory, and a CryoStack-generated SSH key scoped to your identity. Trust model, Connector setup, key registration, VPN/MFA, and troubleshooting.
Access guide →CryoStack Connector
The desktop app that carries CryoStack's SSH through your workstation's network access. Available platforms are those listed in the download manifest.
Connector setup → All downloads →Cloud Supported
AWS Batch on your own AWS account. ISSM and Icepack are validated on Fargate (default) and EC2 On-Demand (single node, CPU); EC2 Spot and custom networking are available but not yet validated; GPU and multi-node are guarded.
Cloud guide → Platform Cloud Run Guide →Slurm
Reference for the account, partition, node, task, memory, and wall-time settings CryoLauncher exposes for scheduler-managed resources.
Slurm documentation →PACE
Georgia Tech research computing and HPC services.
Visit PACE →Reproducible software environments#
Tested container images
CryoLauncher's Docker / OCI path uses a curated tested image whose full software stack is validated and pinned by verified digest, so a run's environment is reproducible.
ICESEE-Containers →ICESEE-Spack
Spack-managed software environments for the ICESEE-Spack execution backend, with a first-time onboarding check and prepare workflow.
ICESEE-Spack →Apptainer
Container technology commonly used on institutional HPC systems.
Visit Apptainer →Firedrake
The automated finite-element system that Icepack is built on.
Visit Firedrake →Data and results#
Datasets
Upload reusable input files to your personal dataset area, reference them from user examples, and let CryoLauncher stage them with the run.
Dataset guide →Structured result format
What a completed ISSM run produces: metadata.json, mesh,
per-field data, the final model, and figures — discovered rather
than assumed.
Solution / Field / Timestep
How the field-visualization panel discovers solutions and fields, handles transient timesteps, and renders nodal, elemental, and scalar results deterministically.
Visualization guide →Source code and project#
CryoStack repository
The gateway, application layer, connector, and deployment source.
View repository →ICESEE project
The umbrella organization for ICESEE, CryoStack, containers, and Spack environments.
View organization →ICESEE
Ensemble state estimation and parameter inference with supported ice-sheet models.
Open ICESEE →Citing CryoStack
How to cite CryoStack together with the models, datasets, and publications used in your work.
Citation guidance →Video tutorials#
Follow complete CryoLauncher workflows from model configuration through execution and results.
Icepack · Cloud
Configure and run an Icepack workflow on AWS Cloud, including preparation of the CryoStack AWS environment.
Watch tutorial →ISSM · Cloud
Configure and run ISSM using a prepared CryoStack AWS environment. New to CryoStack Cloud? Start with the Icepack · Cloud tutorial to see how the AWS environment is prepared.
Watch tutorial →ISSM · Remote
Configure and run ISSM using an existing Remote computing resource through CryoLauncher.
Watch tutorial →For the step-by-step reference behind each workflow, see the Getting Started guide and the User Manual.
Support#
Use the CryoStack issue tracker for application bugs, connector and remote-execution problems, documentation issues, and feature requests.
Questions about ISSM, Icepack, Firedrake, or PETSc themselves should go to that project’s own documentation and support channels.