Getting a Supercomputing Wales Account
You should have done this before coming to the workshop, its not an instant process!
Go to https://my.supercomputing.wales
Installing required software
You will need the following software:
- An SSH client
- A VNC client
- (optional) an SFTP or SCP client for file transfers
Windows
SSH
For Windows there’s a big choice of SSH clients. The latest versions of Windows 10 have an SSH client built in. If you don’t want to use this or have an older version of Windows then download https://download.mobatek.net/2002020012904840/MobaXterm_Portable_v20.0.zip or https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/w64/putty.exe.
VNC
Download the https://www.tightvnc.com/download/1.3.10/tightvnc-1.3.10_x86_viewer.zip, extract the zip file and run the vncviewer executable.
Linux
An SSH client is already built in. If you have administrator rights install the realvnc-vnc-viewer, xtightvncviewer or gvncviewer (also known as gtk-vnc) package from your package manager. Alternatively you can use the https://www.tightvnc.com/download/2.8.3/tvnjviewer-2.8.3-bin-gnugpl.zip.
Mac
An SSH client is already built in. There are several VNC clients you can use: