Connecting to Cousteau

Your local computer is often not capable of doing bioinformatic work within a reasonable time. Therefore, for this course we are going to use a remote server called “Cousteau”. In order to work on a server, you have to connect to it using a protocol called Secure Shell or ssh. The ssh structure usually is <your-ID>@<server-address> (Note: < and > are not part of the command) in case of Cousteau this is <yourETH-ID>@cousteau.ethz.ch, so the command to connect to Cousteau is:

# Command to connect to cousteau
ssh <your ETH-ID>@cousteau.ethz.ch

#Your command could f.ex. look like this
ssh fieldc@cousteau.ethz.ch

After entering the command to connect to the remote server Cousteau, enter your password upon request (please note that no characters (even asterixes) will appear while you enter your password)

Exercise 0.1

• Try to connect to Cousteau yourself

First, you have to open the command line interface on you computer For Windows: Type “command” into the taskbar menu For Mac: Click onto the launchpad icon in the dock and type “Terminal” into the search field

Second, connect to Cousteau with the ssh command. You need your user ID and your nethz password in order to connect to the serve. The command to connect to the Cousteau is:

ssh <your ETH-ID>@cousteau.ethz.ch