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Hopper
Self-hosted campus VM cloud

Cloud VMs for
students & teams.

Spin up SSH + VS Code virtual machines in seconds. Per-minute credit billing, fair-share scheduling, on your own cluster.

Free starter credits · no card required

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Univ. of Dhaka CSE Dept Research Lab Systems Group EdTech BD
Features

Compute that keeps the class moving.

Autoscaling, fast boots, and zero idle cost — the platform handles the hard parts.

peak
24 VMs · full class
off-peak
3 VMs · idle

Autoscale the class

The admission queue starts VMs automatically, in order, as cluster capacity frees up. No manual scheduling.

Learn about the queue

Sub-minute boots

VMs boot from pre-built images — Ubuntu, Python, C/C++ or Java — in seconds. Ready before the student finishes typing.

See the images
Boot times
Running4
Booting2
Queued1

Zero idle cost

Stop a VM and billing stops that second. Credits are charged by the minute — you only pay for real compute.

How billing works

Persistent storage

Attach fast network volumes to any VM in the cluster. Your files and environment persist across sessions.

Learn about volumes

From plan to running in one flow.

One account. No migrations between stages.

Get started

Pick a plan

Choose Small, Medium or Large — by vCPU and memory — and a base image.

Launch & connect

Boots in seconds. Connect over SSH or open VS Code in the browser.

Pay per minute

Fair-share scheduling moves the class from queue to running fast.

High availability

The orchestrator reschedules VMs on node failure so workloads keep running.

Managed scheduling

The queue distributes VMs across nodes — no orchestration to build yourself.

Live metrics & logs

CPU, memory and logs in real time. An in-browser terminal on every VM.

Questions? Answers.

Everything you need to know about running on Hopper.

Small, Medium and Large — sized by vCPU and memory. A VM reserves a quarter of its plan’s CPU and bursts to the full limit whenever cores are idle.

Ready to launch your first VM?

Sign up with your university email. Free credits to get you started — no card required.