SSH (Terminal)
To log in to Oscar you need Secure Shell (SSH) on your computer.
To log in to Oscar, open a terminal and type
ssh -X [email protected]
The -X allows Oscar to display windows on your machine. This allows you to open and use GUI-based applications, such as the text editor gedit.
Windows users need to install an SSH client. We recommend PuTTY, a free SSH client for Windows.
In PuTTY, use [email protected] as the Host Name and click Open.
The first time you connect to Oscar you will see a message about the authenticity of the host:
The authenticity of host 'ssh.ccv.brown.edu (138.16.172.8)' can't be established.RSA key fingerprint is SHA256:Nt***************vL3cH7A.Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
You can type yes and press return. On subsequent logins you should not see this message.
You will then be prompted for your password.
Nothing will show up on the screen as you type in your password. Just type it in and press enter.
You will now be in your home directory on Oscar. In your terminal you will see a prompt like this:
[[email protected] ~]$
Congratulations, you are now on one of the Oscar login nodes! The login nodes are for administrative tasks such as editing files and compiling code. To use Oscar for computation you will need to use the compute nodes. To get to the compute nodes from the login nodes you can either start an interactive session on a compute node, or submit a batch job.
Please do not run CPU-intense or long-running programs directly on the login nodes! The login nodes are shared by many users, and you will interrupt other users' work.
