Accessing the Picotte Cluster#

Remote login (SSH)#

To be able to run commands on Picotte from your own machine, you will first need to log in. We will login via SSH which will provide us a shell on Picotte’s login nodes.

  • For Mac OS X, you can open the Terminal Application.

  • For Windows, you can launch either the Git Bash app or its integration through Windows Terminal.

  • Type the following into your terminal.

    • YOUR_PICOTTE_USERNAME is your Drexel username (without the @drexel.edu)

ssh YOUR_PICOTTE_USERNAME@picottelogin.urcf.drexel.edu

When logged in, you are presented with a welcome message and the following “prompt”, with username is replaced by your actual Picotte username:

[username@picotte001 ~]$

Let’s enter our first command! Type the command whoami, then press the Enter key (sometimes marked Return) to send the command to the shell. The command’s output is the ID of the current user.

whoami

Windows Terminal

Mac Terminal