Stopping an Application

Outcome You stop a running application to free resources and (on credit-based sizes) stop accumulating Credit charges.

Before you start

• You have at least one running application you want to stop.

Stopping applications when you are done is good resource hygiene: you free up the resources allocated to your organisation, stop accumulating Credit charges on credit-based sizes, and (in courses) free up application slots for other students. There are four ways to stop an application - pick whichever is convenient.

Stop from the Dashboard

On the Dashboard, the three most recently used applications are always listed. Hover over the power button - you can enter the instance the application is in, open the application directly, or stop it.

Stop from the application view of an instance

1

Navigate to the space containing the instance where the application is.

2

Navigate to the instance.

3

Make sure you are on the Current state.

4

On the sidebar, click the screen icon (applications) to see the application list.

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If the power button is green, the application is running. Click the power button to stop it.

Stop from the sidebar

1

Inside the instance with running applications, the sidebar shows icons for all currently running applications.

2

Hover over the application you want to stop.

3

Choose Stop from the menu that pops up.

Stop from the Running Applications header menu

1

While you are not inside an application, the top header menu is always visible.

2

Locate the screen icon labelled Running applications.

3

The list of your currently running applications opens as a dropdown.

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Click the Stop icon next to the application you want to close.

Student applications are stopped automatically after 1 hour of inactivity. Researcher and instructor applications follow defaults of 6 hours (Included sizes) and 1 hour (credit-based sizes) in research spaces. The auto-stop covers you if you forget - but on credit-based GPU sizes, credits continue to accumulate during the idle hour. Stop explicitly when possible.

For students on GPU Lab Sessions - do not stop your GPU-enabled application yourself during a lab session. The system shuts down all student applications at the end of the session automatically. If you stop it manually during a session, you will not be able to start it again until the next session - this is intentional.