Access the high performance computer (HPC)

To access a high performance computing environment you will need a terminal application.

  • if you are in LB109
    • you can run gaussview and gaussian on these computers directly! search in the applications for gaussview and start your calculation or lab
    • if you want to run a larger job, then you can log into raapoi as follows: start the MobaXterm application, accept MobaXtem operating on private networks and you are ready to login to raapoi!
  • Linux users: you are very lucky, simply start up your terminal application and open a terminal window!

  • Windows users: you will need to install some software that will emulate a unix terminal, the software is called MobaXterm
    • navigate in your favourite browser to "https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net
    • click on get MobaXterm now
    • choose the free Home edition
    • choose the installer version
    • save into the default location most likely to be C:\Users\%UserName%\Downloads
    • then navigate to your downloads directory
    • "unzip" into the current folder
    • you will get MobXterm_installer_20.2.msi which is the installer
    • double click to run the installer
    • if you have a security warning, click run to allow the installer to work
    • you will get the setup wizzard
    • accept the license agreement
    • accept the default placement of the file most likely to be
      C:\Program Files (x86)\Mobatek\MobaXterm\
    • click install
    • accept the app making changes to your device
    • click on finish
    • start the MobaXterm application up
    • accept MobaXtem operating on private networks
    • now you are ready to login to raapoi!

  • Mac users: as a simply text based interface you use the Terminal application, this is in your Applications/Utilities directory.

    But if we want to run gaussview remotely you need something called X11, this requires installing the XCode tools and an X11 application called XQuartz

    • navigate to the App store and download and install XCode (Developer tools), note this is a big application and will take some time
    • in a Terminal window type "sudo xcodebuild -license" and accept the license
    • download and install XQuartz from here
    • once XQuartz is installed shutdown and restart your computer
    • start up your Terminal application
    • now you are ready to login to raapoi!

Everyone should now have an application open which they can use to connect to raapoi

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