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To connect your local machine to the eRI cluster a Secure Shell (SSH) connection needs to be established. If you are using a Unix-like operating system like MacOS or Linux this can be achieved simply using the inbuilt terminal. Windows users must make use of an SSH client (e.g. WSL, PuTTY, MobaXterm).

Instruction for NeSI staff access

  1. First copy the following SSH host configs. You can rename the login nodes I've named them eri-X as their true hostnames are generic login-X:

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Code Block
$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/mypubkey.pub eri-0

\uD83D\uDCD8 Instructions for AgR staff access

  1. If working from outside the AgResearch local network, connect to AgR VPN
    (or Inscrutable or Iramohio first: e.g. connect via a Terminal application:
    ssh inscrutable.agresearch.co.nz)
    See also Connecting to the eRI compute cluster from Windows

  2. Once logged on, continue to connect to an eRI login node:
    ssh username@agresearch.co.nz@login-0.eri.agresearch.co.nz
    (or login-1) enter your password if prompted

  3. List the contents of your sandbox project folder:
    ls -la /agr/persist/projects/XXXX-abc_defghijklm

  4. List the contents of your scratch folder:
    ls -la /agr/scratch/projects/XXXX-abc_defghijklm

  5. Change into the scratch location:
    cd /agr/scratch/projects/XXXX-abc_defghijklm

  6. Start working…

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