You will need to ssh into stampede2 for all the analysis in class. Macs come with terminal, so no installation is required. For windows laptops, install putty and winSCP. Putty is used for sshing into ls5 stampede2 and winscp is used for transferring files to and from ls5stampede2.
Before logging onto TACC servers, multi-factor authentication must be set up. Click here for an overview of this process, and click here to begin setting it up.
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