SSH

The HPC system uses the standard SSH (Secure Shell) protocol for remote login. The following instructions assume that you are using Microsoft Windows as your client environment, and the examples below demonstrate how to connect using PuTTy.

After launching PuTTY, enter the following connection settings,

• • • Host Name (or IP address): zinfandel.ncree.org

    • Port: 22

    • Connection type: SSH

    • In the Saved Sessions field, type a name of your choice (for example, Zinfandel HPC) to identify this connection easily in the future.

Finally, click Save to store your session settings.

In PuTTY, you can customize the font used in the terminal window. In the left-hand menu, navigate to Window -> Appearance. Click the Change button under Font settings. Select your preferred font (for example, PMingLiU or MingLiU), choose a standard size such as 12, and ensure that the Character set is set to Chinese Big5 if you need Traditional Chinese display support. This setting helps improve readability, especially when working with Chinese text in the terminal.

Similarly, in the left-hand menu, go to Window -> Translation to adjust the character encoding settings. Make sure to set Remote character set to UTF-8. This ensures that text — including filenames and messages containing non-ASCII or Chinese characters — is displayed correctly in your terminal session.

Return to the Session category in the left-hand menu, and click Save to store your configuration changes.

The next time you open PuTTY, simply select the saved session (for example, Zinfandel) and click Open to connect directly to the HPC system.