Accessing the Sakura Cluster

The username and password for all SU HPC clusters are same.

Within campus

ssh username@sakura.sabanciuniv.edu

From outside of campus

ssh username@flow.sabanciuniv.edu
Then
ssh username@sakura.sabanciuniv.edu

Saving Your Output

While submitting your job to query, there are several ways to save your output.

• Output could be directed to a file by command
  • ./some_task > out.txt will write your output to the file out.txt
  • ./some_task >> out.txt will append your output to the file out.txt
  • ./some_task &>> out.txt will append your output and stderror to the file out.txt

Redirecting Output

This output later could both be viewed and edited or copied to local.

• To view output; cat command could be used or editing file nano editor could be used with nano out.txt command.
• To copy the output to your local computer;
  • From local scp username@sakura.sabanciuniv.edu:/absolute/path/to/file /relative/path/in/local
  • From cluster scp /relative/path/in/local username@local:/absolute/path/to/directory could be used.