User Manual

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User Manual

The operational reference for running a CryoStack application: choose an application and workflow, configure it, choose an available execution environment, submit and monitor the run, then retrieve and visualize results.

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Where to go next.

Each card below is scientist-facing: how to use a capability. The matching implementation detail — how it is built and extended — lives in the Developer Guide, cross-linked from each page rather than duplicated here.

AW

Applications & Workflows

What each CryoStack application does, and how their interfaces genuinely differ — CryoLauncher's Basic/Advanced/Auto-config, ICESEE's Local/Remote/Cloud, and Frozen Legacies/LIVIST's own shape.

RL

Running Locally

Where Local execution exists today, and why it is not offered for every application or workflow.

RR

Running Remotely

Bringing your own institutional cluster or workstation: direct SSH or the CryoStack Connector, submission, monitoring, and retrieval.

RC

Running in the Cloud

AWS Batch on Fargate or EC2: configuration, submission, workflow-dependent institutional connectivity, and current scope.

RV

Results & Visualization

Retrieval, inspection, and visualization for each application — CryoLauncher's structured result package and ICESEE's own results workflow.

TS

Troubleshooting

Common setup, connectivity, and run problems, and where to look next when something fails.

The normal workflow

Configure, execute, monitor, visualize.

This configure/execute/monitor/visualize shape describes CryoStack's two workflow-execution applications — CryoLauncher and ICESEE — which run scientific models on a chosen execution environment:

1. Choose an application and a workflow/example.
2. Configure it (Basic/Advanced/Auto-config for CryoLauncher; the equivalent controls for ICESEE).
3. Choose an available execution environment for that workflow — Local where supported, Remote, or Cloud.
4. Submit and monitor status, logs, and progress.
5. Retrieve, visualize, and download results.

Frozen Legacies (a historical-radar catalog and interpretation tool) and LIVIST (an englacial-temperature exploration application) are equally first-class CryoStack applications, but neither is organized around this execute/monitor cycle — they have their own interaction models, not a missing or incomplete version of this one. See Applications & Workflows for what is actually available in each application.