In the Tinker SANE environment, you can see, interact, and work with sensitive data without having the ability to copy the data out of the environment. The data provider checks and releases your output results. In this document, you will find the steps to work with Tinker SANE.
1. Prepare your workspace
You may want to combine the sensitive data with your own data, and/or use additional analysis software. Researchers cannot add these to SANE themselves, so should send these to the data provider outside SANE (e.g. via e-mail).
2. Log in to the Research Cloud portal
Once the data provider set up the SANE environments, go to SURF Research Cloud portal and log in with the identity that the data provider invited you to the Collaborative Organisation (CO).
3. Create a Tinker workspace
- Click on "Create new workspace"
- Select the CO to which you were invited
- Select the catalog item "Tinker SANE"
- Select a flavor for your virtual environment that is suitable for your application
- In the 'Options' step select the private network that is made available to you
- Finalise the wizard
4. Access your Tinker workspace
Once the Tinker workspace has been launched you can access the workspace using the "Access" button in the Research Cloud porta. This will prompt you with a method to connect to a Remote Desktop client. If nothing happens automatically, it is possible that your browser or operating system does not support the "Access" button. For such cases, we ask you to open your Remote Desktop client (e.g. TigerVNC, Windows Remote Desktop, etc), and connect to the workspace manually using the information in the workspace details.
5. Perform analysis
Within the Tinker workspace that you access via the virtual desktop, you can freely work with the sensitive data that is made available to you.
6. Prepare output results
Place any output results in the folder "This PC\sane-data\results"