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Navigate To The Cluster

Prerequisites

  • You can access the Tufts HPC in two ways, either the OnDemand website, or command line.

The OnDemand Website:

OnDemand Website

  • Log in with your tufts credentials
  • Once you are logged in you'll notice a few navigation options:

To Access A Shell Terminal

  • Click on Clusters > Tufts HPC Shell Access

To Access An Interactive App

  • Click on Interactive Apps
  • Select the App you are interested in using
  • For more information on how to access an interactive app take a look at our tutorials on RStudio and JupyterLab:

RStudio Interactive Session

JupyterLab Interactive Session

Command Line:

  • You can access the Tufts HPC Cluster via command line with:

    • The Terminal app on a Mac or Linux machine
    • PuTTy or Cygwin SSH or SecureCRT or other SSH clients on a Windows machine

  • To Log in open one of the aformentioned apps and enter:

ssh your_utln@login.pax.tufts.edu
  • Next log in with your Tufts Credentials
  • At this point you are on a login node and should see something like the following:

output

[your_utln@login-prod-02 ~]
  • While on a login node please do not run any programs. For this you will need to get compute resources. See the following to get compute resources:

Compute Resources