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 # UnicoreSpawner
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+Spawner enables start of singleuser notebook-servers via [UNICORE](https://www.unicore.eu) on various HPC-Systems.  
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+Used at Juelich supercomputing centre for https://jupyter-jsc.fz-juelich.de and other JupyterHub installations.