Access

Access to your Clusterware compute environment can be achieved in two ways:

• SSH access to the login node
• Graphical access to the login node

Access via command-line

Three pieces of information are required to connect to a ClusterWare environment:

• Username
• SSH key or password assigned to user
• ClusterWare login node public IP address

Command-line access with SSH key

Access the login node with the IP address 54.92.81.24 and username alces-cluster

ssh -i ~/.ssh/clusterware-key alces-cluster@54.92.81.24
Warning: Permanently added '10.77.0.193' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
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                                Welcome to hpc1
                     An Alces Clusterware environment (r3)
                              Based on CentOS 6.7
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TIPS:

'module avail'            - show available application environments
'module add <modulename>' - add a module to your current environment

'alces session'           - start and manage interactive sessions
'alces gridware'          - manage software for your environment
'alces howto'             - guides on how to use your research environment
'alces template'          - tailored job script templates

'qstat'                   - show summary of running jobs
'qsub'                    - submit a job script
'qdesktop'                - submit an interactive session request

Generating SSH keypair: OK
Authorizing key: OK
[alces-cluster@login1(hpc1) ~]$

Optionally - remove the -i /path/to/key option to log in via password authentication.