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-= General =
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-[https://www.aiida.net/ AiiDA] is an open-source Python tool to help researchers with automating and reproducing the complex workflows associated with modern computational science.  Numerous plugins exist to integrate AiiDA with common computational packages, particularly in the field of computational chemistry (see list of available [https://aiidateam.github.io/aiida-registry/ plugins] ).
-Typically AiiDA will run on user's personal computer, a lab workstation, or a virtual machine in the cloud.  From there the user can have AiiDA submit jobs to clusters.
-To do this, AiiDA must be able to make many SSH connections to the clusters autonomously.  This becomes a problem on clusters which require interactive [[Multifactor authentication|Multifactor authentication (MFA)]].  The implementation of MFA support in AiiDA is still under development.
-= Robot node =
-To allow AiiDA and other similar software to connect to Alliance clusters, we have set up so-called robot nodes on each cluster.  These allow SSH connections without MFA, subject to restrictions.