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Login Nodes
Please know that we recommend CentOS 7 as the server you use. 'rhel6-64' and 'iris' will be going to EOL.
More information on new Host will be given in the future.
The following machines can be used for remote SSH access to SLAC:
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SSH is capable of forwarding X11 through the connection. This will be slow when you are connecting from a non-SLAC network. To display SLAC X11 / GUI applications to your remote desktop or laptop, we have FastX and NoMachine .
SLAC IT recommends NoMachine over FastX.
SLAC has NoMachine and FastX available. For more information on FastXthe programs, see https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/SCSPub/FastX and https://www.starnet.com/fastx/ . :
For NoMachine, see NoMachine .
For FastX works for LAN or WAN access, and is optimized for Remote Linux X Windows, and can be used if the default SSH X11 tunneling does not provide adequate performance., see FastX
Data Transfer Nodes (DTN)
ssh and scp are not the most optimized tool for large data transfers. bbcp and/or globus are better choices. There are two Data Transfer Nodes available for this:
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SDF and S3DF can help with transferring data. For more information, see:
SDF https://sdf.slac.stanford.edu
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For more information, see /public/doc/#/data-transfer
S3DF https://confluences3df.slac.stanford.edu/displaypublic/doc/SCSPub/Transferring+Data .#/data-transfer
SSH between a non-SLAC machine and a SLAC machine
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