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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 available. For more information, see https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/SCSPub/FastX and https://www.starnet.com/fastx/ .
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.
Data Transfer Nodes (DTN)
For transferring large amounts of data, ssh and scp are not the most optimized tool for thislarge data transfers. bbcp and/or globus are better choices. There are two Data Transfer Nodes available for this:
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dtn01.slac.stanford.edu dtn02.slac.stanford.edu |
For more information, see https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/SCSPub/Transferring+Data .