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Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre: Intro to HPC

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Logging on to Setonix

Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 10 min
Questions
Objectives

  • Learn how to remote access Setonix

Getting your user names and passwords

We have created some training usernames and passwords for you. These are available on the google sheet linked on the PowerPoint slide. Go to that link and put your name next to one of the usernames to claim it for yourself. That will be your username and password for this whole class.

Logging on to Setonix with Terminal or Windows PowerShell

Your user name and password will be supplied. Within a terminal window, type:

ssh username@setonix.pawsey.org.au

Enter your password when prompted. If asked to accept any credentials, type yes and hit enter

If you have successfully logged in, you should see your command prompt change

username@setonix-01:~>

If you are unable to login, please first check your password was typed correctly. If you are still unable to login, please ask for assistance.

Logging in using PUTTY (Windows)

Host name is setonix.pawsey.org.au

Port is 22

User name is the name you selected on the training accounts sheet- e.g. something like cou001

Helpful link: https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/how-to-use-putty-ssh

Useful shortcuts that Pawsey sets up for you

To save you some time typing, Pawsey has set up some shortcuts for all users. We will make use of these throughout the hands-on session. Let’s look at them:

Shortcut Meaning
$USER Your unique user ID. e.g. cou001 or sbeecroft
$PAWSEY_PROJECT Your default project code (some people are members of multiple projects). e.g. courses or pawsey1086
$MYSCRATCH Path to your default scratch diretory. e.g. /scratch/courses/cou001/
$MYSOFTWARE Path to your default software directory. e.g. /software/projects/courses/cou001

Downloading the lesson material

There are some materials for the lessons which are hosted on github. In order to access those on Setonix, you will need to clone the git repo, then change directory. You can list the contents of the directory with ls

cd $MYSCRATCH
git clone https://github.com/SarahBeecroft/Intro2HPC.git
cd Intro2HPC/exercises
ls

Key Points

  • Logging on to Pawsey systems uses SSH (secure shell)

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