Background
Once you have your QUT Account enabled for access to the HPC, you can connect to the Head Login Node and start working.
Since the HPC is physically located in a special datacenter with physical security, we do not walk up and use the HPC directly, we connect remotely over the network.
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“The Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network.”
The Head Login Node is called lyra.qut.edu.au and runs a SSH server that allows connections from an SSH client.
Windows, MacOS, and Linux have command line SSH clients built in. For a graphical SSH client on Windows, we have a few choices.
Installing and using PuTTY
PuTTY (Download PuTTY - a free SSH and telnet client for Windows) is a popular Windows based SSH Client and we will use that today.
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Saving PuTTY sessions
That was quite a bit of information to type in. PuTTY can save the settings to make connections to regular machines easier.
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