Connect and File Transfer¶

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• Time: 13:00 - 16:00
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This course teaches you how to login to and transfer files to/from/between NAISS HPC clusters.

In this 3-hour workshop you learn how to log in and how to transfer files to and from Swedish academic HPC clusters. We will cover graphical as well as terminal tools and you will work highly interactively.

At the end of the day, you should be comfortable in transferring files between local computer and a cluster and cross-clusters, and choosing the right tool for your use cases.

The workshop is intended for beginner users and does require you to install some tools. You do not need to be a member of a NAISS project in order to join the workshop. A course project on one of the NAISS clusters will be available to those.

Prerequisites¶

• Prerequisite 1/4: have a good Zoom setup
• Prerequisite 2/4: (Windows users only) Have MobaXterm installed
• Prerequisite 3/4: (Mac and Linux users only) Have rsync installed
• Prerequisite 4/4: Have FileZilla installed. (if you cannot install, see the FAQ ‘What if I cannot install FileZilla?’)

For questions, see the course’s prerequisites page.

Learning outcomes¶

• I am comfortable using the documentation of my HPC center
• I can log in to my favorite HPC cluster using a web browser
• I can log in to my favorite HPC cluster using SSH
• (optional) I can log in to my favorite HPC cluster using a remote desktop client
• I can transfer data using scp
• I can transfer data using FileZilla
• (optional) I can transfer data using rscync
• (optional) I can transfer data using sftp
• (optional) I can compress and archive files before transferring
• (optional) I can transfer files between clusters