Discovery Setup for Mac

Summary

Access to Discovery cluster from Macintosh

Body

DRAFT

We should have a KnowledgeBase article on this, but don't seem to have ever written one, primarily because the core thing you need is already installed on your Mac (Terminal) - unlike Windows.

To display graphical output from remote Linux software, you'll need Xquartz or FastX (see below), but this isn't so important with discovery since it is a batch-scheduled environment.

You'll also probably want to mount your DartFS space on your Mac so that you can directly see the same files that Discovery sees.

Terminal can save a custom set of preferences, size, colours, font, and command to run, in a one-click .terminal file.
Attached to this ticket is an example 'discovery-NETID.terminal ' which will open terminal and connect to discovery with your NetID.  To use it, download and edit with a text editor, search for MY-NETID and replace it with your NetID.

Services.dartmouth.edu is your friend - go there and do a search for keywords to find the KnowledgeBase articles we have written on the Research Computing services
https://services.dartmouth.edu/
 

Some pages you might find helpful:

Research Computing Accounts
https://services.dartmouth.edu/TDClient/1806/Po...

Discovery Overview, plus tutorials on use of PBS to submit jobs to batch queue
https://rc.dartmouth.edu/index.php/discovery-ov...

Access DartFS from Macintosh, so your personal computer can see the same files as Discovery
https://services.dartmouth.edu/TDClient/1806/Po...

Andes and Polaris Environments; Linux compute servers for interactive use
https://services.dartmouth.edu/TDClient/1806/Po...

Installing XQuartz and Enabling GLX (OpenGL), for remote display of graphical output from remote Linux servers
https://services.dartmouth.edu/TDClient/1806/Po...

 

Details

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Article ID: 116205
Created
Tue 9/15/20 12:43 PM
Modified
Tue 3/2/21 11:50 PM

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