How To Access the CLMA Cluster

Command Line Access

MacOS

Run Terminal (under Applications/Utilities). At the command prompt, type:

ssh user@patas.ling.washington.edu

or

ssh user@dryas.ling.washington.edu

...substituting your UW NetID for "user." The first time you do this, you'll get a warning about an unknown host key; type "yes" (the full word) and hit Enter to continue. You will then be prompted for your CompLing password.

If you don't want to have to type out the command line every time, you can add Terminal setting shortcuts to your Dock.

Windows

You will need an SSH client, such as Tera Term Pro (available from IT Connect) or PuTTY. Note that Tera Term Pro does not have Unicode support, so if you'll be working with foreign languages PuTTY is probably the better choice.

Open your client and connect to patas.ling.washington.edu or dryas.ling.washington.edu. Log in with your UW NetID and CompLing password.

Transferring Files

MacOS

You can use any SFTP client. Fugu and FileZilla are two good options. (Note there is one minor bug in most versions of Fugu; if you cancel a transfer in progress, you must close Fugu completely or all other transfers will fail.)

If you're comfortable with the command line, you can also open Terminal and use the sftp command included with MacOS, much like ssh is used above.

In either case, the login details are the same as for command line access.

Note: In FileZilla you must precede the hostname with sftp:// or the connection will be refused. For example, to connect to dryas, you'd put sftp://dryas.ling.washington.edu in the host box.

Windows

You can use any SFTP client. FileZilla and WinSCP are two good options. The login details are the same as for command line access.

Note: In FileZilla you must precede the hostname with sftp:// or the connection will be refused. For example, to connect to dryas, you'd put sftp://dryas.ling.washington.edu in the host box.

Network Filesystem Access

You may also access files on our cluster directly through our Samba fileservers. Note that this works best from on campus; if you're using a connection from elsewhere, the network latency may make network filesystem access slow or unstable. Some ISPs (notably, Xfinity/Comcast) also block this type of connection. If you find yourself in one of these situations, use SFTP as described above, instead.

Note: Accounts created before July 2008 do not have Samba access by default. If you have one of these accounts and would like Samba access, email linghelp@u to request it.

Which server you need to access depends on the filesystem you want to use:

MacOS

Open Finder and click Go, Connect To Server. (Shortcut: ⌘K)

In the Server Address box, type:

smb://mangabey.ling.washington.edu/

or

smb://talapoin.ling.washington.edu/

Click Connect. You will be prompted for your username and password; put in your UW NetID and your CompLing password, and make sure the Registered User box is checked. You should then see a dialog box asking you which network share you want to mount. (The one with the same name as your NetID is your home directory.) Once you click OK, the share will be mounted and you'll be able to access it like you would any other disk.

Windows

Click Start, My Network Places. (Windows 7: Start, Computer) In the address bar at the top of the window, type:

\\mangabey.ling.washington.edu\

or

\\talapoin.ling.washington.edu\

You will be prompted for your username and password; put in your UW NetID and your CompLing password. You should then be able to browse the server. You can map a drive by right-clicking and choosing Map network drive.

In some Windows versions you can also map a drive by clicking Tools, Map Network Drive. Select a drive letter, then enter the address of the share you want in the "Folder" box; for example

\\talapoin.ling.washington.edu\corpora