Collaboration
Research programs in Secure Research Environment allow you to collaborate with your research team by working in your own private drive, working in the shared drive within the research program, and sharing files from your drive to the shared drive.
Within a research program, you cannot: Access information from or about research program that you have not been approved for. Transfer or share information between different research program you have been approved for and have access to.
By improving overall security in a collaborative environment and partitioning certain information, there is greater flexibility and collaboration for your research team (for example, those individuals approved to access Meta Content Library under the same research program).
Signing in to a research program
Use one of the two available Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser portals to access Content Library API in Secure Research Environment. For the best user experience and platform performance, select the portal closest to your location:
After you have clicked on the portal that is appropriate for your location, follow the sign-in instructions to use your Facebook credentials to sign in to the Secure Research Environment. After you have signed in, choose a research program from either the CPU server or GPU server sections in the Server Options page, similar to the one shown below. The server that is started for you will allow you to collaborate with your research team.
Note: If you choose an option from the CPU server list, and your colleague chooses an option from the GPU server list, you will still be able to collaborate with them from within your respective servers. However, code written to run on a GPU server might not run correctly on a CPU server, and vice versa.
Your drive and the shared drive
The file browser shows you files in the research program that belong to you. Files that are shared with everyone within the same research program are shown on a shared drive.
- The file browser for your drive, denoted with a folder icon, contains the folders, notebooks, search results and other items in the research program that belong only to you. The file browser for your drive is selected in the screenshot below.
- You will also see the shared drive, denoted with a three-person icon, that contains the folders, notebooks and so on that are shared among all of the researchers on the program, including you. The amount of storage that your team has used is shown at the top of the shared drive as a fraction of the storage that your team is allowed. The shared drive is selected in the screenshot below.
Copy files between your drive and the shared drive
You can copy files from the shared folder to your folder, or from your folder to the shared folder, by right-clicking on the file and selecting the appropriate item from the contextual menu. To copy from the shared folder to your personal folder, select Copy to your drive. To copy from your personal folder to the shared folder, select Copy to shared drive. In both cases, the items are pasted at the top level of the destination drive.
Because your team's storage is limited (5 GB by default), and because copying data from your drive to the shared consumes space in the shared drive, SRE checks to ensure that your copy operation will not cause you to exceed the limit. If that copy operation would exceed the limit, SRE notifies you and does not complete the copy operation.
There can be a delay of up to 10 seconds before files that are copied to a folder are visible. You can click the refresh icon to show the results of the copy operation sooner.
Shared data usage
Your team's data usage is shown at the top of the Shared drive. When you copy files from one drive to the other, Secure Research Environment ensures that your team has enough storage remaining so that the data can be copied without exceeding the limit. If Secure Research Environment determines that overflow will occur, the copy operation is not performed.
Create a folder
You can create a folder either by clicking the folder icon that has a plus sign on it or by right-clicking (or control-clicking) and choosing New Folder
The new folder icon is outlined in red in the image below:
To create a folder with the cursor, right- or control-click inside the personal or shared file browser pane and select New Folder. The context menu is shown below:
Delete a folder
To delete a folder, you must first ensure that it is empty. Then, you can right- or control-click on it and choose Delete.