Login Nodes
The following machines can be used for remote SSH access to SLAC:
| Load-balanced Hostname | Operating System |
|---|---|
| centos7.slac.stanford.edu | CentOS 7.x |
| rhel6-64.slac.stanford.edu | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x |
| iris.slac.stanford.edu | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x |
Example usage:
ssh centos7.slac.stanford.edu
You can add your username to the login command like this:
ssh centos7.slac.stanford.edu -l username
(replace "username" with your actual SLAC username.
X11 GUI access
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)
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:
dtn01.slac.stanford.edu dtn02.slac.stanford.edu
For more information, see https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/SCSPub/Transferring+Data .