Prerequisites

For teachers: how did we decide upon these?

See here

These are the five prerequisites for following this course:

• Prerequisite 1/5: Be able to login to your cluster's remote desktop environment
• Prerequisite 2/5: Be able to login using an SSH client
• Prerequisite 3/5: Be able to navigate the filesystem under Linux
• Prerequisite 4/5: Have FileZilla installed
• Prerequisite 5/5: have a good Zoom setup

Any questions about this?

See the 'Prerequisites' section of the Frequently Asked Questions

How can I check this?

See the 'Prerequisites' section of the Frequently Asked Questions

What if I have another question?

See the Frequently Asked Questions

Preparations of your (local) computer environment

• FileZilla installed
• A terminal
  • Linux and Mac users are good to go with the built-in terminal
    • Most terminal transfer tools are included.
    • Install rsync on Mac (if needed, see below) with brew rsync in the terminal
  • Windows users are recommended to install MobaXterm
    • MobaXterm has all needed transfer tools included.
    • CMD and PowerShell does not natively include some of the transfer tools.
      • It may be a hard time trying to install them during class session.
• The transfer tools may or may not be installed, see the terminal point above. Check below.

Test to see if you have the needed terminal transfer tools installed

• Open the terminal you will use.
• Test the following commands as they are. There will be some kind of error output.
  • If they are related to missing arguments you are OK.
  • If they tell you the tool is not found it is not there, you need to install it:
• scp
• sftp
• rsync