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Logging on to KLC

The Kellogg Linux Cluster (KLC) is a part of the Quest High Performance Computing Cluster, with dedicated resources for the Kellogg community. We'll learn more about KLC later in the workshop, for now our goal is simply to log on and open up a terminal window. There are various ways to do this, here we will use the FastX Web Browser Client:

https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/rs/computing/kellogg-linux-cluster/connecting.aspx#browser

Here's a screenshot of what you should see when you follow that link:

Click on one of these links (if by some chance one doesn't seem to work, just try one of the other ones). You should get the following screen, where you will enter your netid and password. Click on the "Log In" button:

You will arrive at a screen that looks like this one. Click on the "Launch Session" button:

Here you will have the choice of launching various applications. For now, we will launch a "GNOME Desktop" session. Click on "GNOME Desktop" to highlight it, then click on the "Launch" button:

A GNOME Desktop session will launch in your web browser. Congratulations! You're on KLC. Now the fun can begin.

On the upper left corner, there is a red hat icon. Click on this and you will see a launch bar on the left side of the screen with various options. Click on the "terminal" option, which is a black square with a white border.

You have now started a terminal window, which is running the bash shell. The full power of KLC is now at your fingertips!

Cloning the Git Repository

The next step will involve typing some commands into the terminal window you opened on the GNOME Desktop. The goal is to create a copy of this current Git repository in your home directory on KLC. You will learn more about Git in the Reproducible Research section of this workshop, but for now our goal is to simply make this copy.

This is simply achieved by typing the following command in the terminal window, and then hitting the "return" or "enter" key on your keyboard:

[wkt406@klc01 ~]$ git clone https://github.com/rs-kellogg/computing-orientation.git

You'll see some messages printed to your terminal screen similar to those in the screenshot. To enter into the copy of the repository you've just made, type in the following command:

[wkt406@klc01 ~]$ cd computing-orientation

Congrats! You're ready to go.

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