Verbinal

Launch and monitor CANFAR Science Platform sessions from your iPhone or iPad. Sessions, headless jobs, storage quota, platform load — at a glance.

Verbinal puts the CANFAR Science Platform in your pocket.

Designed for astronomers, researchers, and students working with the Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomical Research, Verbinal lets you check on and control your interactive and batch sessions from anywhere — without firing up a browser.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

• Sessions See every active Notebook, Desktop, CARTA, Firefly, and contributed session at a glance. Tap to open the session in Safari, renew an expiring session, view live events and pod logs, or shut a session down.

• Launch Start a new interactive session on the CANFAR Science Platform — pick a container image, set CPU and memory, name the session, and go. Recent launches are remembered so you can rerun a familiar configuration with one tap.

• Monitor Headless batch jobs, VOSpace storage quota, and platform load in one place. The iPad layout sits the widgets side-by-side; iPhone gets a clean stacked view.

• Account Profile, About, and a one-tap signout — all in the last tab.

UNIVERSAL PURCHASE

One purchase covers your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Sign in once and your session list, recent launches, and stored credentials roam with you.

WHAT THE DESKTOP COMPANION ADDS

The full Verbinal experience on macOS includes a VOSpace storage browser, a Metal-accelerated FITS file viewer with WCS alignment and blink comparison, ADQL/observation search, research notebooks, and an MCP agent surface so Claude can drive your work. iPhone and iPad focus on the session management surface — the things you actually want on the go.

REQUIREMENTS

A CANFAR account. Verbinal connects directly to the CANFAR Science Portal at canfar.net using your existing credentials. Sign up at https://www.canfar.net if you don't have one.