Getting access to the Tufts HPC
You will get an email from aff-account@tufts.edu asking you to set up your Tufts account. Following the instructions in this email, you should
- Reset your Tufts password
- Follow instructions to set up Duo Security
- Set up your VPN connection with Cisco AnyConnect
Once all of these steps have been completed, you can connect to the HPC through the terminal with your new tufts username: ssh TUFTS_USERNAME@login.pax.tufts.edu. You must be connected to the Tufts VPN for this to work.
You will get a message saying:
The authenticity of host 'login.pax.tufts.edu (XX.XXX.XXX.XX)' can't be established.
ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:{{someLongFingerprint}}.
This key is not known by any other names.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])?
- Enter ‘yes’ when you are asked if you want to keep connecting. This will trust the server from now on and add
login.pax.tufts.eduto the list of known hosts in~/.ssh/known_hosts/. You won’t get this prompt again.
Setting up passwordless HPC connection
See SSH
Helpful directories on the cluster
Once you have access to the Tufts HPC, you can access your personal directory within the Bonham Lab folder at /cluster/tufts/bonhamlab. This is a good place to store data/results for personal projects.
- The shared bin (
/cluster/tufts/bonhamlab/shared/) also contains helpful directories with conda environments, apptainer containers, bioinformatics tools (bin) and biobakery databases (databases)
Troubleshooting:
- Some other lab members received a Tufts username and email, but an HPC account was not created for them. If your newly created Tufts password does not allow you to connect to the HPC, this could be something to check.
NOTE
Please reach out to Kevin if you have any questions as you complete this set of steps. If there are additional onboarding items that are not listed here, please do not hesitate to make a branch of the LabWebsite repository and submit a pull-request with an update!