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• Macs and Linux have Terminal programs built-in – find it now on your computer
• Windows needs helpoptons:
  • Windows 10
    • Command shell has ssh and scp (may require latest Windows updates)
      • Start menu → Search for Command
    • Windows Subsystem for Linux – Windows 10 Professional includes a Ubuntu-like bash shells
      • See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
      • We recommend the Ubuntu Linux distribution, but any Linux distribution will have an SSH client
  • or
    • Putty – http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
      
    • See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
    • We recommend the Ubuntu Linux distribution, but any Linux distribution will have an SSH client
      • simple Terminal and file copy programs
      • download either the Putty installer (https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/w64/putty-64bit-0.70-installer.msi)
        • or just putty.exe (terminal) and pscp.exe (secure copy client)
    Windows Subsystem for Linux – Windows 10 Professional includes a Ubuntu-like bash shells
    • Cygwin – http://www.cygwin.com/
      
      • A full Linux environment, including X-windows for running GUI programs remotely
      • Complicated to install

SSH

ssh is an executable program that runs on your local computer and allows you to connect securely to a remote computer. We're going to use ssh to access the stampede2 compute cluster at TACC, where the remote host name is stampede2.tacc.utexas.edu.

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