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Of course, replace <$USER> with your actual username. When you login for the first time, the systen may ask if you want to continue connecting, answer with "yes". When prompted, type in your password (you may possibly not see on the screen what you are typing, this is ok) and hit enter. You'll find yourself in the your home directory of at our login-host hpc-login7.
Please note that this node is only used to login, do not start computations or heavy tasks here - actual computations are performed on our compute nodes (see below).
The cluster has no direct connection to the internet, local mirrors are however implemented for PyPi, conda and R, for transfer of files to the HPC see below.
You may also connect to our jupyterhub server via your webbrowser, https://jupyter.hpc.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de to start jupyter notebooks or terminal sessions.
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scp yourfile <$USER>@storage.hpc.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de:/gpfs/project/<$USER>
or use any scp client (FileZilla, WinSCP etc.).
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sshfs <$USER>@storage.hpc.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de:/gpfs/project/$USER your_local_dir
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