Follow the below instructions to access the campus high performance computer cluster. Access from off campus requires a VPN or SSH Keys (see instructions for creating SSH Keys).

Backups are not provided for /home. There is no other scratch disk space on the machine; everything is in /home. You will have to transfer data to Etna in order to analyze it.

Logging in

Leavitt can be logged into at leavitt.bates.edu using ssh. On campus, all you need to do is this:

ssh yourusername@leavitt.bates.edu

This uses default port 22 on campus. If you want to sign in from off campus, you have to use port 222 and you must specify it in your ssh login:

ssh -p 222 yourusername@leavitt.bates.edu

It will prompt you to enter your password – this will be your Bates password. You won’t be able to see what you’re typing so just be careful.

Navigating with the command line

Read this article on command line commands and familiarize yourself with how to change directories (cd), list the files in a directory (ls), copy files (cp and cp -r), and determine your directory’s address (pwd). Hang on to this article, because you may need to do other operations and it’s a useful resource.

When you log in to leavitt, you will be in your home directory. You can find the address to your current directory by using the command

pwd

You can see what is in your current directory by using the command

ls

Navigating to a project directory

You can do some work in your home directory, but you will need to submit jobs out of the project directory. Usually, a project directory has the location /home/projects/FacultyLabName/

You can get there with the “change directory” command and the address like this:

cd /home/projects/FacultyNameLab/

Creating a new directory

Once inside a project directory, you will want to create a directory with your Bates username as the name.