Introduction

Learning objectives

• Can find an overview of the course
• Have seen the file transfer tools at this course

For teachers

Teaching goals are:

• Learners can find an overview of the course
• Learners have seen the file transfer tools at this course

Lesson plan:

gantt
  title Introduction
  dateFormat X
  axisFormat %s
  section First hour
  Prior : prior, 0, 5s
  Present: present, after prior, 2s
  %% It took me 7 mins, here I do that time x2
  Challenge: crit, challenge, after present, 14s
  Feedback: feedback, after challenge, 7s

Prior questions:

• What is a file tranfer?
• What does one need to do a file transfer?
• How does it look like to do a file transfer?
• Can you name some programs that can do file transfer?

Overview

Here is an overview of the sessions and their relations:

flowchart TD
  account[Account for HPC cluster]
  filezilla[1.Transfer files using FileZilla]
  login_console[2.Login to console environment]
  rsync[3.Transfer files using rsync]
  scp[4.Transfer files using scp]
  sftp[5.Transfer files using sftp]

  account --> filezilla
  account --> login_console
  login_console --> rsync
  login_console --> scp
  login_console --> sftp

As per prerequisites:

• you already have an account at an HPC cluster
• you can already log in to a console environment at your HPC cluster using SSH

Here is an overview of the file transfer tools in this course:

Tool	Features
FileZilla	Graphical, intuitive, simple
rsync	Terminal, powerful, flexible, feels like a regular file copy
scp	Terminal, simple, feels like a regular file copy
sftp	Terminal, simple, feels like a file transfer portal