Pleiades

Environment overview

Pleiades’ environment is protected by secure front ends (SFEs) that users must log in to before ssh’ing into either the Pleiades front ends (PFEs) or the Lou front ends (LFEs).

Logging on and getting onto a PFE

ssh $USER@sfe7.nas.nasa.gov
[Password]
[PASSCODE from SecurID]
ssh pfe
[Password]

Home and scratch

The home directory can be accessed via:

/home3/$USER

The scratch directory can be accessed via:

/nobackup/$USER

Accounting

Jobs are charged different rates depending on which machine they are run on.

A user’s default group id is listed in the /etc/passwd file.