This quick tutorial will help you with the setup of your first ipyparallel session on maris' jupyterhub.

You can either use maris-jupyterhub' python environment and all the packages therein or

create a custom python environment as the simple session below shows

export PATH=/marisdata/MARISHUB/bin:${PATH}
conda create --name=<name>
source activate <name>
conda install ipyparallel
conda install <all-packages-you-might-need>

To create an ipython parallel* profile type

export PATH=/marisdata/MARISHUB/bin:${PATH}
ipython profile create --parallel --profile=<profile-name>

the session above will create <profile-name> in the location established by the environment variable IPYTHONDIR.

On maris IPYTHONDIR defaults to ${HOME}/.ipython/.