SIESTA School sponsored by MaX Center of Excellence
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, May 23-26, 2017
Login details have been provided in the course. Once you have made the initial setup, you can run the command 'tutorial_update' at any time to update the course files.
If you are using a UNIX-derived system (Linux, MacOS), it is quite convenient (and sometimes necessary to avoid problems) to do the following: 1. cd $HOME/.ssh 2. (Edit the file named 'config' with your favorite editor, to add the following stanza (with your number instead of 116 !): #------------- Host s116 HostName nord1.bsc.es User nct01116 Protocol 2 ForwardX11 true ForwardX11Trusted true #------------- Afterwards you can just do: ssh s116 to connect to your account, and to properly forward the graphics data.
Some versions of the XQuartz programs in the Mac exhibit an obscure bug that prevents the VESTA and XCrysden programs to work when executed in the School's computers with a remote display on the Mac. The fix is to issue this command at the Mac's terminal: defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 enable_iglx -bool true