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Save the settings with ''Options -> Save Settings'' and then restart VisIt on your laptop for settings to take effect. | Save the settings with ''Options -> Save Settings'' and then restart VisIt on your laptop for settings to take effect. | ||
If your account has multifactor authentication enabled, you will need to configure your SSH client with ControlMaster as described in [https://docs.alliancecan.ca/wiki/Multifactor_authentication this page], and make sure to use the full host name for Host, e.g. | |||
<pre> | |||
Host cedar.alliancecan.ca | |||
HostName cedar.alliancecan.ca | |||
User <your user name on the cluster> | |||
ControlPath ~/.ssh/cm-%r@%h:%p | |||
ControlMaster auto | |||
ControlPersist 10m | |||
</pre> | |||
Next, log in to the cluster in a terminal window. Finally, relaunch VisIt on your computer, start the file-open dialogue and change the local host to ''cedar'' (or ''graham''). Hopefully, the connection is established, the remote VisIt Component Launcher gets started on the cluster's login node, and you should be able to see the cluster's filesystem, navigate to your file and select it. You will be prompted to select either the ''login'' (rendering on the login node) or ''slurm'' (rendering inside an interactive Slurm job on a compute node) profile. If you select the ''slurm'' profile, you will need to specify the number of nodes and processors and the maximum time limit: | |||
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