Accessing the HEMMER cluster and GRID from outside NTNU is normally restricted. Also might be restricted when using WiFi.
One way to connect to them is either to connect to VPN or to use the login.(ansatt | phys | stud).ntnu.no as jumphosts. This usually means slow sessions or unresponsive X11 GUI sessions.
One way to make it faster is to use SSH tunnels, and better SSH multiplexing.
To make it easier, here is a script sshtun.sh that creates a function to do all that with a single command. You can copy or source it in your .bashrc
# SourceMe # Recomended to set up passwordless ssh authentication https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-setup-passwordless-ssh-login/ # Copy the .pub key to both login.ansatt.ntnu.no and physics cluster workstation function sshtun() { # Replace $USER with your NTNU username local USERNAME=$USER if [[ -z "$USERNAME" ]]; then echo "USERNAME is not defined" return 1 fi local tunnel_sessions="${HOME}/.ssh/ssh-tunnels-created" if [[ ${1} == "help" ]] || [[ -z "$1" ]]; then local __help=" Usage: ${FUNCNAME[0]} hostname where hostname must be a FQDN hostname! (eg. igor.phys.ntnu.no) This function will create a multiplexed ssh tunnel through one of the 3 hosts at NTNU after which will establish an ssh with X11 forwarding connection to your host using the tunnel. This way the connections, especially those requiring GUIs, will be really fast and responsive. Each time a new tunnel will be created even if you're trying to connect to the same host. To connect multiple times to the same host, follow the instructions on the screen after establishing a connection or, check the file \"$tunnel_sessions\" " echo "$__help" return 0 fi host ${1} if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then local options=( "login.ansatt.ntnu.no" "login.phys.ntnu.no" "login.stud.ntnu.no" ) # Print the menu options echo "Select the tunneling host" for ((i=0; i<${#options[@]}; i++)); do echo "$((i+1)). ${options[$i]}" done # Prompt the user to enter a choice read -p "Enter your choice (1-${#options[@]}) (1): " choice # Default option [1]; Change to another one if you want if [[ -z "$choice" ]]; then choice=1 fi echo "Choice was: $choice" # Validate the input re='^[0-9]+$' if ! [[ $choice =~ $re ]] || (( choice < 1 || choice > ${#options[@]} )); then return 1 fi # Process the chosen option case $choice in 1) t_host=tun-ansatt m_host=login.ansatt.ntnu.no ;; 2) t_host=tun-phys m_host=login.phys.ntnu.no ;; 3) t_host=tun-stud m_host=login.stud.ntnu.no ;; *) echo "Not a valid choice. Exiting" return 1 ;; esac echo "Connecting to ${1} through ${m_host} with user ${USERNAME}" local PORT=$(( ((RANDOM<<15)|RANDOM) % 63001 + 2000 )) local counter=0 while [[ $(netstat -ant -p TCP | grep ${PORT}) -ne 0 ]]; do echo "Trying new port ..." local PORT=$(( ((RANDOM<<15)|RANDOM) % 63001 + 2000 )) ((counter++)) if [[ $counter -gt 5 ]]; then echo "Couldn't find a free port" return 1 fi sleep 1 done local SSHCPath="${HOME}/.ssh/${USERNAME}@${m_host}:${PORT}-${1}" ssh -4 -f -N -T -M \ -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes \ -o ControlMaster=autoask \ -o ControlPersist=10m \ -o ControlPath="${SSHCPath}" \ -L 127.0.0.1:${PORT}:${1}:22 ${USERNAME}@${m_host} local exit_code=$? if [[ $exit_code -eq 0 ]]; then sleep 3 echo -e "\n****************************************************" >> $tunnel_sessions echo "* @ $(date +%F/%T)" >> $tunnel_sessions echo "****************************************************" >> $tunnel_sessions echo -e "You can reconnect/reuse the tunnel to ${1} with:\n ssh -4 -X ${USERNAME}@127.0.0.1 -p ${PORT}" | tee -a "$tunnel_sessions" echo "Check ${tunnel_sessions} for tunnels opened" echo "FORWARDING added to port: ${PORT}" echo -e "Check for ControlMaster connections status:\n ssh -O check -S \"${SSHCPath}\" ${1}" | tee -a "$tunnel_sessions" echo -e "Stop the tunnels from accepting connections:\n ssh -O stop -S \"${SSHCPath}\" ${1}" | tee -a "$tunnel_sessions" ssh -4 -X ${USERNAME}@127.0.0.1 -p${PORT} else echo "ERROR: Couldn't create multiplexed connection!" retun 1 fi else echo -e "Hostname not found. Must be a FQDN hostname! (eg. igor.phys.ntnu.no)" echo "Type \"${FUNCNAME[0]} help\" for more info." fi }
These multiplexed tunnels can be used also to forward connection to remote Jupyter notebooks or to copy files with rsync for example.
- Connect to a remote jupyter notebook session
- Launch the jupyter notebook session on your remote PC, with --no-browser option set.
Note the port given in the links: http://localhost:8889/?token=c6f45f0918daa1380fd402a35c63c7c8826d7b8b9ffd9601 - Establish a port forwarding session with ssh by using the command given by sshtun which looks like: ssh -4 -X username@127.0.0.1 -p 22177
and add: ssh -4 -X -L 8889:127.0.0.1:8889 username@127.0.0.1 -p 22177
and run the command, which will open a new session. - Open the browser on your local PC and use the link given by Jupyter notebook.
- Launch the jupyter notebook session on your remote PC, with --no-browser option set.
- Copy files with rsync
- Note the port used by the ssh tunnel, eg. 22177
to copy from remote PC:
rsync -auv -e "ssh -p 22177" username@127.0.0.1:~/some_file ./
to copy to remote PC:
rsync -auv -e "ssh -p 22177" ./ username@127.0.0.1:~/some_file
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