# Create environment

| **Description** | Creates a compute environment |
| --------------- | ----------------------------- |
| **Endpoint**    | `/compute`                    |
| **Method**      | POST                          |

### Access Level Rules

| **Minimum Access Level** | Account holder only. |
| ------------------------ | -------------------- |

### Processing Units

| **Processing units** | 1 |
| -------------------- | - |

### Parameters

<table><thead><tr><th>Name</th><th width="221">Description</th><th>Required</th><th>Default</th><th data-hidden>Required</th><th data-hidden>Default</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>layers</code></td><td>Layers you wish to use in the environment. Should be an array of object, each object needs a pathId and timestampId</td><td>true</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><code>files</code></td><td>Files you wish to use in the environment. Should be an array of pathId's.</td><td>false</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><code>nodes</code></td><td>The number nodes you wish to parallelize over.</td><td>true</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><code>interpreter</code></td><td>The Python version you wish to use</td><td>false</td><td>Python3.15</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><code>requirements</code></td><td>Array of PIP packages you wish to use in the environment</td><td>false</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><code>largeResult</code></td><td>Boolean. If false the result is returned as JSON object, if true download link for the result is returned. </td><td>false</td><td>false</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><code>enableGpu</code></td><td>Boolean indicating whether to use GPU nodes</td><td>false</td><td>false</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>


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