-- SimonKing - 10 Jul 2006

How to log in to Edinburgh

You have to ssh in through a gateway machine called ssh.inf.ed.ac.uk:

ssh username@ssh.inf.ed.ac.uk

From there you should immediately log in to one of these machines:

• townhill - the head node of the cluster, if you want to run a Grid Engine job. Don't run anything too intensive on this machine, and you must nice anything you do run. If you thrash this machine, you will annoy a lot of people
• student.compute - to run things, submit Condor jobs, etc: make sure you nice your processes
• avon - Simon's desktop: run whatever you like on this
• guan - Partha's desktop: run whatever you like on this

If you want to run emacs in its own window, then add the -X flag to ssh: this forwards the X connection