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  • Getting Started
    • Introduction to Nuvolos
    • Documentation structure
    • Nuvolos basic concepts
      • Organisational hierarchy
      • Applications
      • Distribution
      • Data integration
      • Snapshots
      • Background tasks
    • Navigate in Nuvolos
    • Quickstart tutorials
      • Research
      • Education (instructor)
      • Education (student)
  • Features
    • Applications
      • Application resources
      • Sessions
        • Session Logs
      • Install a software package
      • Create a persistent .bashrc
      • Automatic code execution
      • Long-running applications
      • Troubleshooting applications
      • New applications or licenses
      • Configuring applications
      • Exporting applications
      • Add-ons
        • MariaDB add-on
        • PostgreSQL add-on
        • OpenSearch add-on
        • MongoDB add-on
        • Redis add-on
        • PostGIS add-on
        • Rclone mount add-on
        • Neo4j add-on
    • File system and storage
      • File navigator
      • Large File Storage
      • Preview files
      • Mount Dropbox
      • Access S3 buckets with RClone
      • Access remote files with SSHFS
      • Access files on SharePoint Online
    • Object distribution
      • Distribution strategies
      • The distributed instance
    • Snapshots
      • Create a snapshot
      • Restore a snapshot
      • Delete a snapshot
    • Database integration
      • Create datasets
      • View tables
      • Build queries
      • Upload data
      • Access data from applications
        • Set up ODBC drivers
        • Obtain tokens for data access
        • Find database and schema path
      • DBeaver integration
    • Environment variables and secrets
    • Searching
      • Page
      • Find an application
      • Find an organisation
      • Find a space
      • Find an instance
      • Find a state
    • Video library
    • Nuvolos CLI and Python API
      • Installing the CLI
      • Using the CLI
  • User Guides
    • Research guides
      • Inviting a reviewer
      • GPU computation
    • Education guides
      • Setting assignments
        • Programmatical assignment handling
      • Documenting your course
      • Setting up group projects
        • Collaborative application editing
      • Configuring student applications
      • Archiving your course
      • Student guides
        • Joining a course
        • Working on assignments
        • Leaving a course
    • Application-specific guides
      • JupyterLab
      • RStudio
      • VSCode
      • Stata
      • MATLAB
      • Terminal
      • Terminal [tmux]
      • Apache Airflow
      • Apache Superset
      • D-Wave Inspector
      • MLFlow
      • Databricks Connect
      • Dynare.jl
      • CloudBeaver
      • InveLab
      • Overleaf
      • Metabase
      • DNDCv.CAN
      • OpenMetaData
      • Uploading data to the Large File Storage
    • Data guides
      • Setting up a dataset on Nuvolos
      • Importing data on Nuvolos
      • A complete database research workflow (Matlab & RStudio)
      • Accessing data as data.frames in R
      • Working with CRSP and Compustat
      • Working with the S&P 500®
  • Pricing and Billing
    • Pricing structure
    • Resource pools and budgets
    • Nuvolos Compute Units (NCUs)
  • Administration
    • Roles
      • Requesting roles
    • Organisation management
    • Space management
      • Invite to a space
      • Revoke a space user
      • HPC spaces
      • Resting spaces
    • Instance management
      • Invite to an instance
    • Enabling extra services
    • Monitoring resource usage
  • Reference
    • Application reference
      • InveLab
        • Dataset selection
        • Modules
          • Time-series visualisation
          • Moment estimation
          • Mean-variance frontiers
          • Frontiers
          • Dynamic strategy
          • Portfolio analysis
          • Performance analysis
          • Benchmarking
          • Carry trade strategies
          • Risk measures
          • Conditional volatility
          • Replication
          • Factor factory
          • Factor tilting
          • Valuation
    • Glossary
  • FAQs
    • FAQs
    • Troubleshooting
      • Login troubleshooting
        • I forgot my email address
        • I forgot my identity provider
        • I can't log in to Nuvolos
        • I forgot my password
        • I haven't received the password reset email
        • I haven't received the invitation email
      • Application troubleshooting
        • I can't see an application
        • I can't start an application
        • I can't create an application
        • I can't delete an application
        • I can't stop a running application
        • JupyterLab 3 troubleshooting
        • Spyder 3.7 troubleshooting
      • Administration troubleshooting
        • I can't see a space
        • I can't create a space
        • I can't delete a space
        • I can't invite admins to my space
        • I can't see an instance
        • I can't create an instance
        • I can't delete an instance
        • I can't invite users to an instance
        • I can't see distributed content in my instance
        • I can't see a snapshot
        • I can't create a snapshot
        • I can't delete a snapshot
        • I can't revoke a user role
        • I can't upload a file
        • I can't delete a file
        • I can't invite students to my course
      • Content troubleshooting
        • I can't find my files in my Linux home
        • I can't find my files among the Workspace files
        • I restored a snapshot by mistake
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  1. Getting Started

Documentation structure

This documentation has the following structure: it is organized in a logical order, moving from more introductory items to greater detail and complexity. Explanations of basic terms (e.g., Nuvolos Compute Units) are found in the first corresponding section of the documentation, as well as in the glossary.

The Getting Started section (where you are now) provides introductory information on what Nuvolos is and what it is for. It explains basic concepts used in Nuvolos and their purpose. It also gives basic tutorials for the main Nuvolos use cases.

Features gives a description of each of the fundamental features of Nuvolos, with detailed information on how to use them and the different functions and limitations involved.

In the User Guides you can find walkthroughs for achieving your goals if you have a specific use case or need not covered by the basic tutorials.

The Pricing and Billing section provides information on the pricing structure of Nuvolos and how to request additional resources or services.

Administration gives detailed information on how to do administration and management in Nuvolos, including organisation and role management, resource budgeting, and space management.

The Reference is a repository of technical information, giving overviews of different types of architectures and definitions used in Nuvolos.

Finally, frequently asked questions can be found under the header of FAQs.

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